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robnicholson
Sep 05, 2023Aspirant
Helping newbie on VLAN set-up with M4100
I wonder if somebody would be kind enough to give some top level pointers about how I go about setting up routing/VLAN for the following scenario. My knowledge of VLAN on managed switches is limited. The setup is:
Internet - Mikrotik router - M4100 switch - Mikrotik access point
The router is configured with LAN 192.168.88.0/24 and VLAN10 10.0.0.0/24. The access point is configured with no tagging on the LAN (private) Wi-Fi interface and VLAN10 on a virtual guest interface. Connecting to the private LAN via the access point works fine. However, try to connect via the guest interface and the client doesn't get an IP. Remove the VLAN tagging on that interface OR plugging it directly into the Mikrotik router works fine (client gets 192.168.88.0/24 or 10.0.0.0/24 respectively).
So... VLAN routing I'm guessing needs setting up on the switch. The Netgear switch when it receives a broadcast on VLAN 10 doesn't know where to route it? To the DHCP server handing out 10.0.0.0/24 addresses on the Mikrotik router.
I've never setup a managed switch some point top-level points would be much appreciated.
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