Hi all.
I got my hEX working like a horse all the way robust since June!
What can I say, I am a proud MKT owner.
I currently have just one LAN configured in the router, and two access points for wireless.
ETHER2 goes to a Gigabit Switch and everything is connected in this switch, including the APs.
Both APs are within the IP range and have .11 and .12 (final) numbers as the LAN fixed IPs.
Goal is to create a VLAN for wireless, using the same hardware.
Want to know if this is possible. To have a SSID/password for visitors on a separate VLAN,
or if it’s only possible to configure the AP to have that VLAN IP range and not to have this hardware AP on the LAN IP range as well.
Thank you for your answer.
Yes. I have an unmanaged Gigabit switch from DLINK DGS-1008A.
A Linksys E-900 Wireless Router and a DLINK DIR-615 are providing a single SSID/password, and are within the LAN IP range (fixed on .11 and .12 IP ends).
A difference:
E900 is configured as a fixed access point - physical access to .11. It’s in BRIDGE mode.
DIR-615 is configured as a repeater of E900’s SSID/Pw - physical access to .12 It’s in REPEATER mode.
vlan tags should be transparently carried through your unmanaged switch, it should work right away.
The only drawback would be that every port of you witch will turn into a trunk port and that you can´t create access ports for the other lan on that switch.
But looking at the scenario you described this should be negligible.
-Chris
Thank you for your explanation.
Yes, I kind of had a feeling about this DGS would become a dynamite at some point. I might go after a MKT switch soon. Which do you recommend?
I get what you say: ports in trunk mode vs. access mode for the other LAN.
So, as I understand now, I can just go and create a VLAN on top of ether2, but I still need to change SSID/passwords in access points since it’s either one for LAN or the other for VLAN?