Hello,
I finally had some time to take a deep dive on the ERPOE-5 and have been able to simplify my network a bit. But I'm having some trouble integrating a second AP covering the same subnet.
eth0: WAN: 10.0.0.80/24 static, default route 10.0.0.1, NAT/IPMASQ
eth1: unused
eth2: WLAN: 192.168.1.4/24 static, Rocket M5 AP, bridges a house and several aircams via NSM5s
eth3: WLAN: 192.168.1.0/24 DHCP, UAP-AC-LR
eth4: unused/mgmt access
switch0: 192.168.1.1/24, default gateway for WLANs
ERPOE-5 providing DHCP and DNS forwarding/caching.
The eth0 and eth2 configuration works great. However, when I plug in my UAP-AC-LR, wifi clients can connect to it but cannot reach 192.168.1.1 or other hosts on the Internet/WAN. It's isolated somehow.
If I plug the UAP-AC-LR into a switch on the other side of the house bridge it works great.
I feel like this should work on eth3 though because the routing table shows 192.168.1.0/24 on switch0 and the two APs are on eth2/eth3 which are switch ports and are associated as such in the config. But clearly I'm missing something.
I thought well maybe I have to bridge them so I tried to bridge eth2 and eth3 yesterday but ended up getting an error when I committed the configuration, with some perl "Use of uninitialized value" errors, and then lost access to the device and a reset didn't help. I had to pull the USB stick out, plug it into a linux machine, and manually fix up the w/config/config.boot to regain access (console cable on the way).
I'm betting the solution is obvious to the more seasoned EdgeMax users. Can anybody provide insight here? Do I have to hang a separate switch off eth2 or eth3 in order to use the UAP-AC-LR and RM5 together? That doesn't seem right.
My goal here is to eliminate the POE injectors, cat5 connecting POE injectors, and to power and bridge everything from the ERPOE-5, maybe gaining some performance and central mgmt capabilities in the process.
Thank you,
Benjamin