Wireless whitelist from the command line

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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So, I have googled, and I know about the wifi up|down command, and I have seen threads like: [Solved]Wireless Network - MAC-Filter - command line SETUP - #9 by Fperuso and Wireless security via the command line - #3 by ZebraOnPC but they have not answered my question.

I know I can edit /etc/config/wireless by hand, but I don't want to do that. I want to be able to enable/disable whitelisting via the command line, most likely from cron.

So, basically what I'm looking for is a CLI version of Network -> Wirless -> [Wireless Network -> Edit] -> MAC-Filter -> Allow listed only and then add MAC addresses.

Then, of course, to be able to switch the MAC address filter to disable to allow everybody.

Is there a way I can do that from the command line? I know I could grep/sed the config file, but that would be very fragile and I'd rather not do that.

Any tips, techniques or ideas are welcome!

Thanks!

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You would use uci set commands. It would make most sense to create a script which accepts a MAC address as input and runs the 2-3 commands required to add it to the whitelist, rather than stringing these together into a long cron entry.

If you add a whitelist entry in luci and then click Pending Changes in the top right corner it will show you the necessary uci commands as a start.

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Yes. I'll most likely make a script with the config in it, or a script that iterates over a config file.

Nice! I never knew that. That is FANTASTIC! :slight_smile: Thank you.

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Just to follow up, I had to run the command wifi reload to activate the settings.

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