XNetwork

Finding my way into noting down any issues (and fixes) I’ve come across and anything else that comes to mind.

UAP VLANs

I’ve had a Unifi UAP (AC-Lite) for a good few years but never managed to get VLANs working on it. That and the annoyance of it not working on my PoE switch had me buying a TP-Link EAP-225 to replace it. Of course the newer TP-Link provides faster wifi but it was also very simple to setup VLANs onto the SSIDs.

As it tends to happen, replacing the Unifi AP meant also stumbling across how to setup VLANs onto it’s SSIDs. Maybe my reading of documentation or web searching skills are whack but I couldn’t find these simple steps.

  1. On the switch, set the port as untagged for VLAN1.
  2. Tag all other VLANs onto the port.
  3. Done.

The TP-Link on the other hand is tagged on all required VLANs on the switch and then the AP settings deem the VLAN of the LAN interface and the SSIDs.