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      Itay1787 @JKnott
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      @jknott It really is not possible
      There are about 10 to 12 AP

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        JKnott @Itay1787
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        @itay1787 said in Problems in address distribution in DHCP:

        @jknott It really is not possible
        There are about 10 to 12 AP

        Any chance you could have just the APs on a dumb switch?

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          heper @JKnott
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          @jknott said in Problems in address distribution in DHCP:

          VLAN tagging will pass through dumb switches.

          if you are lucky. more often they just vanish, or get corrupted.

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            JKnott @heper
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            @heper said in Problems in address distribution in DHCP:

            if you are lucky. more often they just vanish, or get corrupted.

            Any switch that does that is defective. A switch is supposed to pass any and all valid Ethernet frames. A valid Ethernet frame consists of destination & source MACS, payload and CRC. What distinguishes a VLAN frame from others is the contents of the Ethertype/length field. The VLAN tag is carried in the payload area and should not be touched by a switch. The exception being managed switches configured for VLANs, which create, forward and remove the VLAN frames. There is absolutely no reason why an unmanaged switch would handle a VLAN frame differently than any other. The only exception would be ancient gear that cannot handle Ethernet payloads greater than 1500 bytes. If you run into switches like that, then just reduce MTU to 1496 to avoid the problem.

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              Itay1787
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              In the next few days I'm going to try to run the VLANs from the main switch and send it over the network via VLAN tagged. And see if the APs will work with it and that the rest of the network will be OK .....

              Now I remembered having AP that they are in client mode so I have to check what to do with it.

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                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                What are these AP exact make and model? Client Mode doesn't sound like an AP that supports vlans to me ;)

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                  Itay1787 @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz said in Problems in address distribution in DHCP:

                  What are these AP exact make and model?

                  I can not tell you right now, I'm not there. But in two days I'll be there and tell you.

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                    Itay1787 @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz said in Problems in address distribution in DHCP:

                    What are these AP exact make and model?

                    Wavion: WBS-2400 SCT-120-FCC

                    Planet: WNAP-1110

                    TP-Link: TL-WA7210N

                    EnGenius: EAP1200H

                    EnGenius: ENS202EXT

                    D-Link: DAP 1360

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                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                      So a standard is just nowhere at all? So was it like the school asked the students to donate their old home shit?

                      The TL-WA7210N is an outdoor device - more designed for WISP.. It does have a multi-ssid mode, which from my 2 second breeze over of the manual would mean it needs to be in that mode to do that vs say the "client mode" you mentioned.

                      The DAPโ€‘1360 is a N repeater for gosh sake... Makes ZERO mention of vlan support.

                      Really a WBS-2400 SCT-120-FCC, So how about you go into a bit more on this wifi deployment - and how internet is actually brought into the location... So your on a WISP? for internet? You provide internet to remote building via wifi? etc.

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                        Itay1787 @johnpoz
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                        @johnpoz said in Problems in address distribution in DHCP:

                        So a standard is just nowhere at all?

                        There are no standards in anything !! And this is really a problem but there is nothing to do.

                        So was it like the school asked the students to donate their old home shit?

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                        The TL-WA7210N is an outdoor device - more designed for WISP.. It does have a multi-ssid mode, which from my 2 second breeze over of the manual would mean it needs to be in that mode to do that vs say the "client mode" you mentioned.

                        All of the APs I've listed above are used for school. Some in client and some in AP
                        So regarding these TP-Link, I'll have to think about how to move a cable there with we want VLANs

                        The DAPโ€‘1360 is a N repeater for gosh sake... Makes ZERO mention of vlan support.

                        The DAP-1360 currently managed to flip all but one used as a client mode but it only gets WiFi. - He can not do some things at the same time Do not forget yet it's about D-Link Do not expect too much.

                        Really a WBS-2400 SCT-120-FCC, So how about you go into a bit more on this wifi deployment - and how internet is actually brought into the location... So your on a WISP? for internet? You provide internet to remote building via wifi? etc.

                        Internet access to this school comes through Fiber
                        There are 4 such wavion of the same type, from the same model. And each institute for different places should give a reception of WiFi. These are the main APs. It's not something new they've been around for about 7 years - hoping to replace them in the coming months but right now there's no talk about it.
                        Hope I answered everything.

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