[SOLVED] A second wifi to reach the web without captive portal requests

[jeff]

@jow

Periodically load a web site with well known content

See, for example, https://success.tanaza.com/s/article/How-Automatic-Detection-of-Captive-Portal-works

I have never looked into it, but there are many mentions of "Travelmate" which may provide what you are looking for. Search is perhaps the best, but here is a seemingly interesting result

Travelmate support thread

Hi, in the OpenWrt stable & snapshot package repo you'll find the travelmate package, a wlan connection manager for travel router. Main Features STA interfaces operating in an "always off" mode, to make sure that the AP is always accessible Easy setup within normal OpenWrt environment Strong LuCI-Support with builtin interface wizard and wireless connection manager Fast uplink connections Support all kinds of uplinks, incl. hidden and enterprise uplinks WPA3 support includes a vpn hook with …