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scerazy
Visitor III
September 29, 2011
Question

DHCP to VLAN Wifi AP

  • September 29, 2011
  • 13 replies
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I have pretty simple setup, yet can not make it work. Linksys WAP200 AP with two SSID (SSID1 for default Vlan1 & SSID7 for Guest Vlan7) It connects to a switch gig port in trunk mode Allied Telesis AT8000 which in turn connects to a core AT SBx908 via fibre port (also in trunk mode) Then one gig port from SBx908 (same trunk mode) connects to port 1 on FT 200B which is in Vdom1 AP ---> AT8000 ---> x908 ---> FT200B FT200 has 2 Vdoms (root & Vdom1). On Vdom1 there is DHCP server (on Interface Name port 1) If I connect to SSID1 I get the DHCP from FT200B from DHCP server on port1 (mostly - as sometimes I do get it from the mail LAN on root Vdom, strange!) If I connect to SSID7 I get NO IP at all How do I need to configure the DHCP on FT200B, so it gives me the IP for SSID7 (Vlan7)? Thanks Seb

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    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    October 7, 2011
    I' ve had a similar case where some websites could be reached and others not. The culprit was the MTU. You could run some tests with ping with increasing payload size to see which MTU is supported on your WAN line, to see if this has any influence.
    scerazy
    scerazyAuthor
    Visitor III
    October 8, 2011
    Can not do any longer as (at least for now) got rid of the vdom/vlan combo as I simply could not get it working reliably (even with the halp of the said professional!) Went for a simplified model of 2 plain ports in one vdom on FTG, each connected to separate vlan port on the switch & trunk a trunk port for AP Nice easy & ... not working (most likely AP does something odd, or maybe the switches behave in odd way with vlans) As all 3 pieces in equation (AP, switches, FTG) are from different manufacturers it is " fun" as it seems to be " somebodys else" issue Seb
    scerazy
    scerazyAuthor
    Visitor III
    October 10, 2011
    Eventually it was a piece of cake, but needed to make sure that: - no additional vdoms with vlans were involved (me nor FTG reseller tech guys could make it work) - DHCP is provided by FTG (and NOT AP), this was all works as expected Seb
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