Unifi AP adoption issue
I am going to provide a little background before I come to my question.
I have a Unifi 24P POE switch that is up and running on the Unifi Controller docker container.
The way I was able to get the Unifi switch added to the Unfi Controller, I had to set a port on the firewalla as a LAN port to get the switch to show up on the controller to adopt. After it was adopted I went in and changed the management network to one of the VLAN's on the Firewalla and came up just fine on the VLAN.
Now that I have provided context on how I was able to adopt the switch. I am having an issue getting a Unifi AP added to the controller. Since you need POE to power the AP, I am not able to plug in the AP directly into the Firewall LAN port to get the VLAN 1 IP address.
I tried to set the firewall LAN port to a VLAN 1 port and extend the port up to the Unifi Switch. I set the port on the switch for the AP to match, but the Firewalla is not seeing the AP and is not giving out an IP address for me to SSH into and using the set-inform command.
Anyone have any idea's on what I can do to get the AP to see the controller?
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Hey, so as background, I am running a much smaller POE switch that connects and how is my AP all of which are unifi. Is there a specific reason why you don’t use the LAN networks to connect all of the UniFi devices? I have all my pieces working on land and then later on top of my vans, which cover all of my other devices, including my meeting at work and separate segregated networks.
I feel your pain. Remember this being a bit of a learning curve in a hassle to figure out when I first did it go now I actually run my controller on a separate nice device connected to my LAN.
Apologies if it is a bit rambling, but to summarize, I was able to get all my UniFi devices to connect to the Controller and play nice by putting them all on a base LAN Netwerk building vlans on top of it for my other segregated networks.
Disclaimer: I’m not any networking professional and in all honesty, I am fairly novice when it comes to all of this networking stuff
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Hi so I'm not 100% understanding what you mean by firewall a port configured for Unifi...maybe this will be more clear
FWG(in router mode **previously had the controller running in docker container)->
1 ethernet port connected to my unifi POE switch running a LAN and VLAN trunk ->
POE port running LAN VLAN trunk to Unifi AP i made a horrible diagram below hopefully this is hlelpful
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So to me it looks like you have all your VLANs on a single port including the LAN port.
I am having a problem where if I designate VLAN 1 on the firewalla for the Unifi. Nothing happens but if I set the Port to a LAN port on the firewalla with no VLAN it adopts.
I need to figure out how to get the Unifi devices to talk on VLAN 1 on the firewall.
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You are correct. All my devices are on the Lynne network and are bundled with my other vlans, going into my manage switch. I was having issues with using other subnets when adopting devices, so I found it was easier to use the LAN. I feel like, and I could be totally making us up. I read documentation with Unifi about it needing to be on the same lan network as opposed to vlan. Is there any particular reason why you want to use of you and as opposed to the lan?
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