@Au Wireless wrote:
Wanted to re-visit this as I am getting ready to deploy. I have the speed issue worked out. What I am not sure how to work out is VLANs.
Normally, when I deploy a CPE, I set up a MGT VLAN and a DATA VLAN in the CPE. This way, the customer plugs in any non-VLAN aware router and gets an IP from the pool assigned to that DATA VLAN. Works great.
However, now, if I use a Force 110 to feed a customer router on the primary Ethernet and a Force 180 to bounce to another customer on the AUX Ethernet port, I don't know what to do about VLANs. I don't think I can use the DATA VLAN option anymore, right, since that will assign (untag) that VLAN to both Ethernet ports.
What I envision is untag VLAN 23 (for example) to the main Ethernet port on the 110 and tag VLANs 23 and 4 (management) to the Aux port. On the near side Force 180, I still use my MGT VLAN (4) so we can access it. On the far side Force 180, enter a MGT VLAN (as normal) and then use the DATA VLAN to basically untag VLAN 23 to the client router.
Is this possible? Is there a better way to do it?
Hi AU,
With Data VLAN configured on the Force 110, the primary and aux port both will need untagged packets. Why do you need Data VLAN 23 to the Force 180? Let the client router on the far side of the Force 180 send untagged packets all the way to the Force 110's aux port. There the Force 110 will tag it with 23 (since you have DATA VLAN configured on it). This config may work:
Force 110:
Data VLAN: 23
Management VLAN: 4
Membership VLAN: 4 (to allow management VLAN 4 to go through to the Force 180)
Force 180 (conntected via Aux port of the Force 110):
Management VLAN: 4
But if you need the packets to get tagged/untagged on the Force 180, you may need to use two Data VLANs, one each for the Force 110 and Force 180. This config may work:
Force 110:
Data VLAN: 23
Management VLAN: 4
Membership VLANs: 25, 4.
Force 180 (conntected via Aux port of the Force 110):
Data VLAN: 25
Management VLAN: 4
Refer to this KB article to learn more about how VLANs are handled in ePMP. I'm sure you can play around with the VLAN configuration and find more than one way to do this.
Thanks,
Sriram