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tantony
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Feb 06, 2019
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ProSAFE XS728T, DHCP on trunk port?

Is it possible to do DHCP on trunk ports?   On my Netgear switch, I have VLANs 128 and 192.  I've made port 23 and 24 trunk ports.  I'm connecting an access poing to the trunk ports because the S...
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    schumaku
    Feb 06, 2019

    tantony wrote:

    The AP is connected to trunk port 24, and I tagged it with VLANS 128 and 192 because the AP SSIDs are using those VLANS.  The port PVID is 1.  So if I change the port PVID to 128, the AP will get DHCP from that VLAN?


    Yes, untagged traffic will be associated to the VLAN 128 then.

     

    tantony wrote:

    I'm assuming the SSIDs will still work?


    Of corse, yes. Not sure why you intend to expose the management VLAN to the wireless, up to you...

     


    tantony wrote:

    The AP is connected to trunk port 24, and I tagged it with VLANS 128 and 192 because the AP SSIDs are using those VLANS.  The port PVID is 1.  So if I change the port PVID to 128, the AP will get DHCP from that VLAN?  I'm assuming the SSIDs will still work?

     

    I guess it makes sense why the AP is not getting a dhcp now because the PVID is 1 no ports are members of VLAN 1.


    Yep - no DHCP server on the VLAN, too.

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