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Fortress ES-Series CLI Guide: Networking and Radio Configuration
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Configuring VLANs on the Mesh Point typically requires you to:
1 Define one or more new VLANs on the Mesh Point’s
Active VLAN Table by specifying an associated VLAN ID
and IPv4 address for each. If the IPv4 address is not
specified, it defaults to
Not Configured
.
2 For each new VLAN, configure one or more of the Mesh
Point’s network interface(s) as VLAN access ports by
specifying the associated VLAN ID and ensuring that
SwitchingMode is set to
Access
. Untagged frames
received on a VLAN access port are associated with the
interface’s VLAN ID and forwarded only to other access
ports on the same VLAN and to the trunk port.
NOTE: In
Enabled
VLAN Mode, there
is only one VLAN trunk
per Mesh Point, defined
by the Mesh Point’s
Active VLAN Table and
used by all
Trunk
ports.
3 Configure one or more trunk ports to carry tagged frames,
where the VLAN tag identifies the VLAN with which the
frame is associated. If Fortress’s FastPath Mesh is used for
bridging, every FP Mesh Core port
must be configured as a
VLAN trunk port. This parameter is set automatically during
BSS configuration and is enforced during Ethernet port
configuration.
4 If Fortress’s FastPath Mesh is used for bridging and the
Mesh Point is subscribed to one or more multicast group(s),
you must associate each multicast group subscription with
Table 3.10 VLAN Traffic Handling on the Mesh Point
received traffic VLAN traffic handling
interface
Switching Mode
VLAN tagging on ingress internal on egress
Access
untagged
accept
tag w/ ingress interface
Default VLAN ID
tag = egress interface
Default VLAN ID: send
untagged
tag = ingress interface
Default VLAN ID
tag egress interface
Default VLAN ID: drop
tag ingress interface
Default VLAN ID
drop
Trunk
untagged accept
tag w/ ingress interface
Default VLAN ID
send untagged
tag = ingress interface
Default VLAN ID
accept
preserve tag
as received
tag ingress interface
Default VLAN ID and
is in Active VLAN Table
accept
preserve tag
as received
send tagged as received
tag ingress interface
Default VLAN ID and is
not in Active VLAN Table
drop