Issues with VLANS and Wireless Access

Question

I am fairly new to the 5324 switches and i am having issues with Wireless access points that can use 802.1q tagging.

i have two vlans - 100 and 200. items in both VLANS can talk to other members of the same VLAN. i now have access points with multiple ESSIDS which can be VLAN'd. i want to assign an ESSID to VLAN 100 and a ESSID to VLAN 200.

I have tried placing the units onto a trunk and giving it access to VLAN 100 and 200 and also made the gateway a trunk with the same VLANS.

im getting no connectivity between the units and the gateway though.

Thanks

n8than1 · Answer

Have you found a solution to this. I am having the same problem with a cisco wireless bridge and passing multiple vlan traffic on dell switches.  I am passing voice on a vlan and data on another.   I know the dells can pass multiple vlan traffic because we do have it working on another link using dell switches, and cisco routers.  We also have a voice vlan and a data vlan.

Cincledon · Answer

I have made some progress on this but im having issues with traffic between my wireless bridge and the gateway. I have managed to make the gateway and unit visible from the vlans but they just wont pass traffic between each other.

Any dell help would be appreciated (HINT, HINT)

This is a copy of my config for ref:
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no spanning-tree
interface ethernet g1-24
switchport mode general
exit
vlan database
vlan 2-4
exit
interface ethernet g1-8
switchport general pvid 2
exit
interface ethernet g9-16
switchport general pvid 3
exit
interface ethernet g20
switchport general pvid 4
exit
interface range ethernet g(1-8,20)
switchport general allowed vlan add 2 untagged
exit
interface ethernet g17
switchport general allowed vlan add 2
exit
interface range ethernet g(9-16,20)
switchport general allowed vlan add 3 untagged
exit
interface ethernet g17
switchport general allowed vlan add 3
exit
interface range ethernet g(1-16,20)
switchport general allowed vlan add 4 untagged
exit
interface ethernet g17
switchport general allowed vlan add 4
exit
interface vlan 3
ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
exit
ip default-gateway 192.168.1.1
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G17 is the WAP and G20 is the gateway.

GregG1 · Answer

From this configuration, it appears that you are sending traffic to your router as untagged. If the router is VLAN-aware, you should be tagging the traffic.   With this configuration, it appears that you are trying to configure port overlapping. Port overlapping, however, basically causes the switch to flood traffic as unknown unicasts so all devices must use the same IP subnet. Since all devices are on the same subnet, a router is not used. See the following link for more information on port overlapping: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pc_managed&message.id=2487   An untagged port can only accept ingress traffic from one VLAN (native VLAN or PVID). All traffic from the router will be learned on VLAN 4.

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