TPLINK Omada - Switch network assignment on FWP

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    Michael Bierman

    So that depends on what you do. ;) 

    Let's use my network as an example. A simplistic view of my network is: 
    FWG > unifi 16 port switch > 4 APs.

    The connection from FWG > Switch is a trunk port allowing several vlans to communicate over the LAG between them. 

    When I first set things up,  I just let the switch and APs work on the default VLAN. After a time, I decided to move the switch and APs to a management VLAN.  

    If I recall, I did a couple of things: 

    1. Configured a new management VLAN on Firewalla. 
    2. Adjusted the trunk port to allow the Management VLAN to be included. 
    3. I told the switch and APs that the management VLAN was a specific number.
    4. I gave the switch and APs reserved IP addresses in the IP range of the management VLAN. 

    Now those devices happy work on the management VLAN and I can control which devices have access to the management layer. 

     

     

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    Robby

    Hi Michael,

    Thanks for your response :D  I managed to get back to looking at this yesterday and got the switches to repeatedly (after multiple hard boots of the main switch and FWP) associate themselves with the management LAN by setting static management IPs on the switches themselves. I assume that the FWP associates a device with the FWP network with the subnet of the requested static IP. Not sure what would if a device was on a tagged VLAN and had a static IP for a different VLAN. Anyway it's working for now!

    Robby

     

     

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