[PRESALE] EAP783 "Trunking" question
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Not sure why TP-Link calls it "Trunk", but anyway..........
Was going throught the manual for the EAP783. Since it has 2x 10gb they can be bonded.
In the manual it only mention the load balance method, but it doesn't say anything else if it was a static LAG or an auto-configure LAG (LACP).
Can you please tell me which one it is so I can configure the switch properly (non-TP-Link).
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mbze430 wrote
Not sure why TP-Link calls it "Trunk", but anyway..........
Was going throught the manual for the EAP783. Since it has 2x 10gb they can be bonded.
In the manual it only mention the load balance method, but it doesn't say anything else if it was a static LAG or an auto-configure LAG (LACP).
Can you please tell me which one it is so I can configure the switch properly (non-TP-Link).
Hi @mbze430
The LAG setting/Trunk function in EAP can only be used along with a switch that can configure Static LAG rules on its ports.
In controller mode, you can go to Controller > Devices > select the EAP > Config > Advanced to set up the LAG.
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@Hank21 I have just bought the EAP783 which came in today. On the EAP Side i do as they say.
EAP 783: Config / Advanced / Check of Trunk Enable with Mode SRC MAC + DST MAC / Apply
SX3206HPP: Ports / Edit Port 1 / Click Profile Overrides / Select the two ports the EAP783 is connected to / Select Lag ID 1-8 / Static LAG / Apply
If i pick "Active LAG" on the SX3206HPP, the EAP783 will go offline until I delete the trunk. I dont know what the difference is in Static LAG vs LACP. I was hoping this gave me a 20Gig connection between the two devices. If its just redundancy only then that wasnt what I wanted. Can anyone explain the differrence to me?
Thank you,
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LAG can be either Static or Active.
According to the TPLink employee's reply, the EAP783 it only knows Static.
an Active LAG is LACP (802.3ad) but both end points must know 802.3ad.
but essentially it is LAG. The "trunk mode", what TP Link calls it is actually the load balance mode. If both ends isn't set correctly it will not load balance correctly and end up only giving you only 10Gb ingress or engress on one link.
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@mbze430 Both connections in the LAG individually show 10G but the Uplink from the EAP783 GUI shows 10G Full Duplex, not 20G Full Duplex as I expected. Maybe thats just how LAG works? I made a review video of my setting it up along with the speed tests.
https://youtu.be/lLt5R1x2P5c
Can someone at TPlink confirm I did it correct? Also should the Uplink be showing as 20G? The box for the EAP shows it can do 20G connection. The gui should reflect that unless I am doing something wrong.
Thank you.
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@NetworkingInNH It's possible the latest v5.14 OC300 Beta Software fixes it but I dont want to void my limited warrenty so I will hold off until it's officialy released.
https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/663838
9. Added support to display the status information of the Multi-Lan port EAPs downstream port.
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At your scenario, LAG can provide a more reliable wired connection. When one of the two links is down, there is another link available, so the EAP783 won’t lose wired connection. And LAG can also balance the load which can make full use of the two links.
But there are several points I would like to indicate:
1. The uplink of EAP783 will still be kept as 10G, no matter whether you configured the LAG or not. Currently it will not show 20G.
2. Since your bandwidth is 2G according to the video, the LAG will not improve the Internet speed cuz the single connection has been able to reach the max bandwidth.
3. The load balance will be more visible. For example, if there is a NAS connecting to the front switch, and we assume that the NAS has 20G connection with the front switch. At this scenario, the LAG of EAP783 and the switch will has load balance that all the wireless clients will achieve 20G transmit speed in total within the switch.
For the 9. Added support to display the status information of the Multi-Lan port EAPs downstream port, it will only apply for the EAP-Wall series currently.
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