Team:
I'm having issues with the switch configuration on an EPR6. Not in the sense stuff isn't working cause it is. I will do my best to explain this. I have figured out having to drill down into the config tree, switch, interfaces, vlans etc. What i have done is made my EdgePoint R6 vlan aware per several of the other posts i have read. What i have done is setup a couple switch0 vlan interfaces immediately below. ALL physical eth interfaces on the edgepoint have been enabled on the switch interface.
switch0.11 - Client network - 10.3.11.1/24
switch0.254 - Management network - 10.3.254.1/24
switch0.256 - Backhaul network - 10.2.255.2/29
eth0 - POE injector only (no data)
eth1 - PVID 1 and VID 256 (backhaul to another router and then the internet)
eth2 - Nothing
eth3 - PVID 1, VID11, VID254
eth4 - PVID 1, VID11, VID254
My issue is this. I have a PowerBeam that is connected on eth1 that pulls in data from upstream. This radio is in simple mode with WDS turned on. I have management vlan enabled and 254 as the VLAN tag. It reboots and comes up pulling 254 from this edgepoint that its plugged into. You will see that my configuration above i do not have 254 enabled on this interface. I want this radio to pull 254 from the wireless upstream. I would assume because now its vlan aware and i did not specify on that interface it should not traverse that interface. How can i exclude it. Now i can easily go into advanced mode on this radio and set a WLAN0.254 interface and set that to management however now my concern is that 254 upstream is now being connected to 254 behind this edgepoint. We now have multiple broadcast domain in the same VLANs. Please ask questions as i dont feel i have explained this well enough. Some people may ask why are you using the same VLAN ID's in multiple locations. My thought was to keep it simple. 11 and 254 are always client and management. But the IP structure will be different behind each router. Site 1 is 10.1.X.X. Site 2 is 10.2.X.X Site 3 10.3.X.X.
Any assistance would be helpful. Thanks
James