I have been going round in circles for days now trying to integrate my HAP Lite into my Omada network. i am trying to make full use of the Omada management structure with multiple wireless networks on multiple AP’s and now add another network that relies on the HAP hotspot portal capability and integration with my planned RFID authentication using Arduino. I can get so far in my setup, but the last millimeter of setup, seems to crash everything, but probably due to me missing something.
I dont have a config to share as it is pointless, and I need a fresh set of eyes and direction to get things working. What I have tried so far -
On my Omada ER605 router, I have 2 free ports for the Mikrotik - 1 port acts as the Internet Gateway for the Mikrotik through a VLAN to make sure i can allocate a dhcp ip (Omada router only issues default ip’s to hardwired devices), the other port is a regular lan connection to a normal Mikrotik Port to allow connecting to the omada AP’s (this is actually where the problem seems to be), I run DHCP on the Mikrotik for the specific wireless network as I need to issue ip’s to the arduino that is hardwired to the mikrotik and another pc. starting out the gateway part works fine, Mikrotik port 1 has vlan attached and gets IP from Omada no problem, Omada has rule to not allow any traffic from any other network to or from this port so all traffic can only go out through the wan’s. Bridge on HAP setup with IP Address assigned and ports 3 and 4 added, dhcp targetting the bridge and issues IP’s to everything attached to HAP ports 3 and 4 as expected, and Nat set with outbound port to the Gateway VLAN alows everything to get online, happy days.
Now the hard part, as soon as I add port 2 to the bridge (the one connecting to the Omada router LAN port), everything gets IP’s from Omada and not the HAP so I turned on DHCP Snooping on the bridge, DHCP issue Sorted, good stuff, but users of the new network cannot get IP’s from the HAP. In the OMADA environment the new wireless network is on a new VLAN (100) with the DHCP server set to the HAP bridge IP and gateway set the same. If I add a VLAN interface of 100 and attach it to port 2, remove port 2 from the bridge and add the vlan instead, suddenly everyone using the wifi can connect and access the internet, no problem, BUUTTTT, the mega weird thing is, that the wireless clients cannot connect to the HAP or ping any wired devices on the HAP nor vice versa and sometimes it seems to get into a messy loop with no one being able to renew ip’s. I have then tried removing the VLAN from port 2, add port 2 back to the bridge and then set the vlan to the bridge and set the DHCP server to the VLAN, but this doesnt seem to do anything positive, as still no IP’s.
My thoughts. something with the VLAN setup, I need to make sure that everything is operating on VLAN 100, but cannot set the HAP wired devices to a specific VLAN on the device (I cannot figure out how to do this on the HAP - tagged or untagged I just dont understand how to force the VLAN) then basically I wouldnt need the bridge as everything would be getting IP’s based on the VLAN. Although I havent even started setting up the hotspot part, since I cannot get any devices properly talking to each other, thus this would just add too much complexity at this stage.
I am happy to be shot down with trying to do something nuts, but the HAP is excellent for the Hotspot functionality and the incredible configurability, however the ability to mesh link AP’s wirelessly, manage clients and everything else (through the cloud as well) makes the Omada platform perfect for the infrastructure. I welcome any help on this.