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11 Nov 2013 14:04 #78197 by robertb24
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I may have covered some of this in a previous post so apologies.

Slightly different setup than previous but here is the layout :

Draytek 2830 + AP-800

All working fine on internet and internal network.

what I am trying to do is create a guest wifi network for when guests and visitors want to use the internet. I have created a VLAN on the 2830 and tagged it with VLAN ID 20.
I have then on the AP-800 created a 2nd SSID called guest and given it the VLAN tag of 20.
I have setup LAN2 on the 2830 to give out IP addresses to the VLAN.

I can connect to the SSID of the guest network but never get an IP address.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Incidentally, I have this working fine on another site with a 2830n but in this case the non-wireless 2830 does not seem to work.

thaks

Rob

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11 Nov 2013 14:45 #78198 by sicon
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All long has you have the correct VLANs tick on the 2830 and disabled the 2nd Subnet feature on the AP800 then it should work.

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11 Nov 2013 14:49 #78199 by robertb24
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yes all that is correct.

Just had a thought though, do I need to have an 802.1Q aware switch?

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11 Nov 2013 15:08 #78200 by sicon
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yes that's helps!

you would need to tag the port the AP plus into in VLAN20 and also tag the port that links to the router

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11 Nov 2013 15:13 #78201 by robertb24
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I don't need to tag anything on the switch. The switch just needs to understand the packet so it can forward it.

I have a similar setup at another office which works perfectly and the switch is a Netgear Prosafe which is in it's default setting and I had to do nothing to it but the VLAN tag works through it.

I will change the switch for this one and see what happens.

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11 Nov 2013 16:20 #78202 by sicon
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they do but its not good practice and defeats the whole point of a VLAN.
you need to create the separate broadcast domain so the frames are forward efficiently. your switch wont be getting hammered by the unnecessary broadcast either.
Even ifs its a smart switch you should still be able to use a VLAN with the Prosafe plus utility.

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