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gluon-core: Document support for additional wired mesh-interfaces

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Documents the changes introduced in #2041
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.. _dev-mac-addresses:
MAC addresses
=============
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* 5: mesh1
* 6: owe1
* 7: wan_radio1 (private WLAN); mesh VPN
When you need another MAC address, e.g. for adding another Mesh-Interface,
pick an index from an unused feature on your device.
Example: if you don't have wireless meshing enabled on 5 GHz (mesh1),
you can go with index 5.

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Please note that this configuration has changed in Gluon 2016.1. Using
the old commands on 2016.1 and later will break the corresponding options
in the *Advanced settings*.
Mesh on other interfaces
========================
In some cases you may want to mesh on more interfaces than only LAN or WAN.
This is especially useful if you have multiple other nodes connected to a central node,
and don't want them to mesh with each other, but only the central node.
In this case, you may need to isolate them via VLANs on the device switch.
Starting from Gluon 2020.2 it's possible to configure additional mesh-interfaces
by adding an interface configuration with the proto ``gluon_wired``::
uci set network.mesh_add=interface
uci set network.mesh_add.proto=gluon_wired
uci set network.mesh_add.index=2
uci set network.mesh_add.disabled='0'
uci set network.mesh_add.transitive='1'
uci set network.mesh_add.ifname='eth2'
``ifname`` is the mesh hardware-interface. This could be a VLAN.
``index`` must be between 0 and 7, and is used to generate the used MAC.
Be careful when selecting the index,
see :ref:`MAC addresses <dev-mac-addresses>` for details.
Before the changes take effect, the node needs a reboot or
``gluon-reconfigure`` to update the firewall.
This configuration should survive updates.