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EnRoute500 User’s Guide
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14 Enabling VLAN Tagging
The EnRoute500 supports VLAN tagging, with each client interface capable of supporting a
different VLAN tag. If VLAN tagging is enabled for an interface, client devices that connect to
the interface must be capable of receiving VLAN-tagged frames.
14.1 Client Interface Configuration
VLAN tagging can be independently controlled on each client interface (eth0, wlan1-4). The
‘vlan.enable’ parameter in the ‘eth0’, ‘wlan1’, ‘wlan2’, ‘wlan3’, and ‘wlan4’ interfaces controls
the state of VLAN tagging. The example below shows how to enable VLAN tagging on the
‘wlan1’ interface. The VLAN-related parameters can be set via the web interface under the
“wlanN” tags on the “Wireless Interfaces” page and on the “Wired/Backhaul Interface” page
(see Figure 47).
> use wlan1
wlan1> set vlan.enable=yes
VLAN tagging must be enabled on the backhaul Ethernet interface on a mesh
cluster’s gateway for VLAN tags to be included in data frames sent to the WAN. See
section 14.2 for more details.
The VLAN ID is set with the ‘vlan.id’ parameter in the respective interfaces that support VLAN
tagging. The VLAN ID must be in the range from 0 to 4095. Note that 0 and 4095 are reserved
values and 1 is the default VLAN ID. There are no restrictions on VLAN IDs for different
interfaces or nodes having to match or be different.
The VLAN-related parameters for the backhaul interface can be set via the web interface on
the “Wireless Interfaces” page and on the “Wired/Backhaul Interface” page (see Figure 47).