Hi,
I have a point2point wireless link with two RB532-4 and SR5-80211a SuperRange5 802.11a 400 mW mini-PCI. I want this link to be a bridge with support for 802.1q vlan trunking. i managed to create the bridge, but I don’t have the vlan trunking working.
on either site of the link the RB532 is connected to a port on a switch that is set as 802.1q. I want to transmit a couple of vlans over the wireless link. How do i configure the RB532’s to support 802.1Q trunking?
thx,
Peter.
Hi
We have our vlans hauled over 2 PTP hops with MT. Didnt have to configure any special things to manage that since MT supports transparent bridging. Have a Cisco Cat2950 at each end where the port has the simple cli of “Switchport mode trunk”. This lets all vlans float through. To secure the links we use WPA2-PSK aes tkip.
The downside with MT is that it doesnt support Ciscos native vlan. For management purposes a ip address is set on a vlan interface. Tried to make vlan interfaces and bridges and set ip adresses on the bridge without success. This only created a mess and loops. Finaly we only created a vlan bridge with a ip address and that worked. This bridge doesnt bridge any interfaces..
You should setup managment vlan on bridge interface. Then setup a ip address on a management vlan interface. Work perfect for me. No mess, no loops.
The problem was the WDS was not setup correctly. We do have it working now with our switch ports set to trunking and passing Vlans. I’m using Avaya switches and also the native vlan is not working to access the IP of the bridge. I’ll try what nhalachev suggested.
thanks for the replies.