User's Guide

Chapter 18: Enabling VLAN Tagging
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18 Enabling VLAN Tagging
The EL-500 supports VLAN tagging, with each client access interface capable of supporting a
different VLAN tag.
18.1 Client Access Interface Configuration
VLAN tagging can be independently controlled on each client access interface (wlan1-4). The
Enable VLAN parameters for the ‘wlan1’, ‘wlan2’, ‘wlan3’, and ‘wlan4’ interfaces controls the
state of VLAN tagging.
VLAN tagging must be enabled on the Ethernet interface for VLAN tags to be
included in data frames sent to the LAN. See section 18.2 for more details.
The VLAN ID value for each client access interface is set with the VLAN ID parameter for each
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. There are no restrictions on VLAN IDs for
different interfaces having to match or be different.
CLI
The example below shows how to enable VLAN tagging on the ‘wlan1’ interface and set the
VLAN ID to 12 using the parameters ‘vlan.enable’ and ‘vlan.id’ in the ‘wlan1’ interface.
> use wlan1
wlan1> set vlan.enable=yes
> use wlan1
wlan1> set vlan.id=12
Web GUI
The VLAN Enable and VLAN ID parameters can be set via the web interface under the
“wlanN” tabs on the “Wireless Interfaces” page and on the “Wired Interface” page (see Figure
55).