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Chapter 3 | System Settings
VLAN Configuration
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Note the following points about the access point’s VLAN support:
◆ The management VLAN is for managing the access point through remote
management tools, such as the web interface, SSH, SNMP, or Telnet. The access
point only accepts management traffic that is tagged with the specified
management VLAN ID.
◆ All wireless clients associated to the access point are assigned to a VLAN.
Wireless clients are assigned to the default VLAN for the VAP interface with
which they are associated. The access point only allows traffic tagged with
default VLAN IDs to access clients associated on each VAP interface.
◆ When VLAN support is enabled on the access point, traffic passed to the wired
network is tagged with the appropriate VLAN ID, either a VAP default VLAN ID,
or the management VLAN ID. Traffic received from the wired network must also
be tagged with one of these known VLAN IDs. Received traffic that has an
unknown VLAN ID or no VLAN tag is dropped.
◆ When VLAN support is disabled, the access point does not tag traffic passed to
the wired network and ignores the VLAN tags on any received frames.
Note: Before enabling VLAN tagging on the access point, be sure to configure the
attached network switch port to support tagged VLAN frames from the access
point’s management VLAN ID and default VLAN IDs. Otherwise, connectivity to the
access point will be lost when you enable the VLAN feature.
Figure 14: Setting the VLAN Identity
The following items are displayed on this page:
◆ VLAN Classification — Enables VLAN packet tagging. (Default: disabled)
◆ Management VLAN ID — The VLAN ID that traffic must have to be able to
manage the access point. (Range 1-4094; Default: 4093)
◆ Native VLAN ID — The VLAN ID assigned to untagged packets received by the
LAN port. (Range: 1-4094; Default: 1)