EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
Please reply URGENTLY!!
I've just purchased 2x EAP211 Bridge kits and 1 x EAP215 bridge kit. This is for our OC200 Omada.
How do I use the PoE/LAN1, LAN2 and LAN3 ports on the EAP21x?
I thought I would be able to bridge from one location to another, and at the far site would be able to connect two EAP650s (with PoE supplied by its own 48v injector) each one into one of the LAN2/LAN3 ports of the EAP21x to become "direct-wired" EAP650s (non-backhaul), instead of Meshed.
I have the following config....
Router ---> passive PoE injector --> EAP215 AP Tx =>==>=5G=<==<= EAP215 sub-AP Rx -->LAN port 1 --> PoE port of EAP215 passive PoE inj----out of LAN port---> plugged into LAN port of 48v injector---> PoE out to EAP650 PoE/LAN in.
repeated
Have I misunderstood how this works? Where is documentation for the LAN port use?
I may have thought this would work like CPE710 where one is AP mode and other is Client or Router (WISP) mode?
Please help.
Update: I think I need another switch, I have 2x SG2008P already, I thought I could get away with direct connecting the 650s and 21x's ports via the injectors. Because I'm also trying to minimise wireless backhaul.
The reason I want to connect EAP650s to the EAP215/211s is because the 21x only have 5Ghz radios, there is no 2.4Ghz which may cause a problem for Payment Card Readers connecting to the SSIDs that are unable to use 5G. Whereas the 650s allow both 2.4/5G.
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I'm having a similar problem. I've got an EAP650 outdoor connected via ethernet to the EAP215. Everything is great until the EAP650 switches to mesh uplink. Once it changes to mesh, I can only get it back to wired by forgetting it on the controller and readopting. It's happened twice this week, and I'm not sure what's causing it.
I think there are two bugs/issues here:
1) I tried disabling mesh sitewide, since I don't need it, but disabling mesh took down the bridge. Disabling mesh should not burn EAP215/211 bridges.
2) EAP650 should either automatically switch back to wired uplink when wired connectivity returns, or there should be a method to switch it back in the controller's UI.
WIFI isn't my forte, but I'm a pentester and technically competent. I can test things and provide logs if needed. For now, I've disabled auto failover, hoping it'll prevent the issue from occurring.
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@dave_a3wrfjlk you should also set the preferred uplink node for each of your wireless meshed nodes if you haven't already. Controller shows a gold star next to preferred uplink once done.
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You can also try to disable Mesh Auto Failover. However, if your Mesh network contains multiple devices, this may have an impact on it.
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@UKJim wonder if this looks vaguely familiar :)
https://static.tp-link.com/upload/case-study/2024/202405/20240502/B2B_BMW%20Golf%20Tourney_Case%20StudyFINAL.pdf
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d0ugmac1 wrote
@UKJim wonder if this looks vaguely familiar :)
https://static.tp-link.com/upload/case-study/2024/202405/20240502/B2B_BMW%20Golf%20Tourney_Case%20StudyFINAL.pdf
@d0ugmac1 @dave_a3wrfjlk @Hank21
Yeah thanks for that, I did see that case study a month or two ago and found it quite interesting. I also watched a couple of videos of the BMW Pro-Am event and watched out for sponsorship/branding. TD-Synnex and Teleco was the company who did the technical side of things, but there was no onsite branding for TP-Link which I thought was a pity. But maybe there are many such events that TP-Link never gets to hear about or are only made aware of afterwards.
I'm currently re-building sections of our showground kit live again back at my home (not easy replicating the behaviour of a massive showground in my back garden!) to analyze and recreate some of the issues we encountered so I can give an update on this LAN port problem (among other things I want to figure out), test out effect of the Mesh setting, Failover etc. I'm quite busy with other things and finding time to slot this in is not easy.
There are so many things from that weekend show that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. For instance I'm sure we experienced the WPA3/PMF association errors issue that the EAP650 has had a bad rap from and been accused of suffering from with older non-PMF capable client devices, but is actually an industry-wide problem encountered by ALL the big vendors, Ubiquiti/Unify, Aruba, Asus, MikroTik, not just TP-Link!
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@UKJim I have the same situation with one of my installations using two sets of EAP115's with a 650 attached. In both cases, the bridges show that they are wired and the 650's are meshing back to the bridge. In one case, there's even a 5 port, unmanaged switch that both the 115 and the 650 are connected to. I believe the fix to this would be to allow us to lock the client bridge AP manually like you can with both the AP's and Pharos equipment. Hopefully, this is something that is a firmware fix.
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Hi @Gnac
Thanks for your input. Do your 115s have any kind of port control interface? How many LAN ports do the 115s have? What is the difference between eap215 and eap115?
Gnac wrote
@UKJim I have the same situation with one of my installations using two sets of EAP115's with a 650 attached. In both cases, the bridges show that they are wired and the 650's are meshing back to the bridge. In one case, there's even a 5 port, unmanaged switch that both the 115 and the 650 are connected to. I believe the fix to this would be to allow us to lock the client bridge AP manually like you can with both the AP's and Pharos equipment. Hopefully, this is something that is a firmware fix.
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@UKJim They have three 10/100 ports on them with no port control interface. I use these to extend wifi in public areas where there is already bandwidth limits and I don't need the speed of the more expensive models.
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