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thehighwayman's avatar
Nov 15, 2022

GS108EV2 802.1q vs port based VLAN

Can someone help me to understand what's going on 🙂

My apartment has a somewhat strange IPTV multicast delivery where both internet and IPTV (even though in two different IP surbents) are delivered in the same Ethernet socket (without 802.1q tags; I double checked using wireshark).

 

If I use the configuration as seen in picture all devices work as expected. I have two VLANS (all ports untagged) configured in GS108EV2 which handles local-subnet, WAN and IPTV subnets. Under this config the Router gets the correct WAN IP and the IPTV box also gets the correct IP (in a different subnet compared to WAN). 

 

My questions are:

  1. How the IPTV box gets a IP in a different subnet compared to WAN? If I use wireshark by mirroring port-1 I can see both router and IPTV uses DHCP? 
  2. More intersting question is why I cannot replace above configuration with a basic port based VLAN? I tried it (VLAN1: ports 1,2,8 and VLAN2: ports 3-7). But then Nvidia Shield which is connected to VLAN2 does not have internet. However it gets an IP via DHCP from N7000. Also a laptop connected to N7000 via wWiFi can ping Nvidia Shield.

1 Reply

  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User
    Reads like the R7000 router is configured for bridging the ISP IPTV VLAN transparent to one of its hard ports, like LANx or LANy.

    Mess predictable. This can only be used to connect a singöe IPTV box, bit to magically re-disrribute that IPTV traffic (and dedicated subnet).

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