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Figure 47. Configuring VLAN for access point interfaces

14.2 Gateway Configuration

For VLAN tags to be preserved on traffic that exits a mesh cluster, VLAN support must be

enabled for the Ethernet interface on the mesh cluster’s gateway node. The ‘vlan.enable’

parameter in the ‘eth0’ interface controls the state of VLAN tagging. The example below shows

how to enable VLAN tagging on a gateway node. If VLAN tagging is enabled on the gateway’s

interface to the WAN, all inbound traffic will have their VLAN tags preserved. If VLAN tagging

is disabled for this interface, all VLAN tags will be stripped from frames entering the mesh

cluster.

> use eth0

eth0> set vlan.enable=yes

Data frames forwarded by the gateway to the WAN will preserve their existing VLAN tag, if

they have one. Frames that do not have a tag will be tagged with the default VLAN ID for the

gateway’s Ethernet interface, defined by the ‘vlan.id.’ parameter in the ‘eth0’ interface. The

example below shows how to set the VLAN ID for the Ethernet interface. 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.

> use eth0

eth0> set vlan.id=1