VLAN Ethernet ports on CAP

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Hi Guys,

I have two VLANs running on my CAPsMAN setup.

VLAN10 - Home
VLAN20 - Guest

On the Wireless everything works perfectly.

What I would like to do is add certain Ethernet ports to VLAN 10 and 20 so that Ethernet devices can join the relevant networks.

The CAPs have no configurations at the moement, they are 100% provisioned and managed from the CAPsMAN.

How should I configure the CAPs to put VLAN10 on ETH 2+3 and VLAN20 on ETH 4+5

Any help is gratefully appreciated.

Thanks Guys

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My experience is that one should configure wired part of a cap device as if it wasn’t managed by capsman …

3

Could you elaborate?

I’m unsure how to do this as I don’t see any VLANs created on the CAP, but they are clearly working.

Any help to clarify would be awesome.

Thanks.

Regards
Alasdair MacLeod

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What type of cap devices are you using. My cap ACs have two ethernet ports but only use one (wired connection to it)?
(It is by no means a switch but I suppose if desperate…)

5

Hi Anav,

They are hAP AC.

6

Have a read through this reference, there is an example for your case.

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/using-routeros-to-vlan-your-network/126489/1

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Do you have datapath set to local-forwarding=no? In this case there’s actually a tunnel between cap and capsman and all traffic flows there. So no VLANs on caps, everything is done by capsman. This kind of setup is fine as you don’t need any configuration on caps at all. But has (at least) two drawbacks: a) induces higher load on capsman as it has to deal with all traffic of all connected caps and b) leaves other interfaces on cap devices essentially unusable. Alternative is to configure cap devices with appropriate LAN config (VLANS, interfaces, IP setup, …) and create datapath with local-forwarding=yes and appropriate vlan settings (vlan-id and vlan-mode) as if wireless was configured without capsman.