Which Omada Switches to get IP Addresses and VLANS working

Hello
In the last week I've upgraded all my networking equipment in my home to to TP-Link Omada and generally I'm pretty happy with it but I have 2 issues which both relate to my switches so I think I need to buy some new switches unfortunately which is a bit disappointing considering what I've just spent:
Issues 1. Only some of my switches are reporting IP addresses of clients plugged into them
Issue 2. I have followed the guides for making separate VLANS which work perfectly for Wireless clients on any of my 4 Wireless Access Points, they are put on the correct VLAN when I've linked the Wi-Fi SSID to each VLAN however if I try and assign my switch ports to VLANS the clients are unable to get an IP address I can only give wired clients IP addresses from my main secure VLAN
After quite a bit of research it would seem this issue may be related to the switches I have purchased not being capable of 1 seeing client IP's and 2 possibly not able to change VLANS
The equipment I have is:
1 x ER605 v2.20 (Has IP addresses visible for each client on each port, I don't need to change the VLAN on any of the devices plugged into the router LAN ports)
1 x SG2008P v3.20 (Again all IP addresses visible but if I try and change the port profile from Secure to any other VLAN the device attached to that port will no longer receive an IP address until I change the profile back to my secure profile again and the client will instantly connect again)
1 x ES205G v1.0 (No IP addresses and again changing the profile of a port will stop the client getting an IP address)
1 x ES205GP v1.0 (1 of the 2 clients plugged into this have an IP address the other is missing? But again unable to change the port profile to put an clients on a different VLAN)
1 x ES208G v1.0 (Again no IP addresses and no way to get ports to give IP addresses if Port profile changed)
I'm unable to get the VLAN profiles to take on any port I try, is this a setting issue or a limitation on the equipment I've bought? I believe the missing IP addresses are hardware limitation but the ES205GP confuses me why half of the IP addresses are visible but not the other half so it's clearly capable?
Can someone please advise what equipment I should buy to get all the IP addresses visible for all plugged in clients and also allow me to change the VLAN profiles on the ports for the following switches:
1 x 8 Port switch with at least 4 POE ports
1 x 8 Port switch (no POE required)
2 x 5 Port switches both with POE
What is the most cost effective equipment to achieve what I'm looking to achieve?
Thanks in advance
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I forgot to show the configs for the client showing request for IP is on the 192.168.107.x VLAN but it still get assigned a 192.168.2.x IP Please see below, with this image and the image above I think that should show all the configerations I have set to try and get that device onto the 192.168.107.x range
Thank You
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right here, you are trying to set a port profile for the IoT vlan, but you still have it wrong
For an access port, where the switch port is being used to connect a device straight into a vlan, the desired vlan should be untagged & native with no tagged or other untagged entries on the port
Here, you are setting the untagged entry to the vlan1, hence why the devices are still getting an IP in vlan 1
It should read
Native Network : IoT
tagged Networks: --blank--
Untagged BNetworks: IoT
A brief reminder
All switch-to-switch and switch-to-router ports should either use ALL, or a custom profile with 1 untagged vlan (in your case, "Secure") and the remaining vlans as TAGGED
All access ports - ports going toa. single device (or a dumb switch hosting devices all in the same vlan) should have the desired vlan as NATIVE and UNTAGGED, nothing in tagged at all, and no other untagged networks either (in most cases, and this applies to you)
Here are screenshots from mine for you to compare
Network:
Switch Profile for my switch-to-switch and switch-to-router links (my equivalent but customised version of "All")
A switch profile that puts a port right onto a specific vlan
Port profiles on a SG2008P
Port profiles on a ES205G switch. Client IPs wont be shown on devices connected to this switch, but will still work and get an IP
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Also, if you are using an ES208 switch for your IOT devices, these switches dont show the IP address of connected devices - but the devices do actually have an IP. Its just not shown in controller. There is some kind of fix for this on the horizon i believe.
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@GRL Thanks that was very helpful but it's just confirmed I had it all correct at the beginning using the default made profiles, please see below, setup one gives the client a 192.168.2.x IP address as you would expect, setup 2 which should be correct and work perfectly give the client no IP at all it cannot connect
When I get reading there seem to be a lot of people with the same issue, is it worth me resetting everything and starting again as I honestly feel like it should be working at this point
Thanks for your help I genuinley appreciate it
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@GRL Yeah I've read about this, at this stage I'm not doing anything special with any of the switches other than the SG2008P for this reason. Thanks
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i just posted some screenshots in my last post, you may not have seen them as you were replying at the same time i think.
The last thing to check, even if it has been mentioned before
Make sure all vlans are allocated to every router port (that you need if multiple switches connected). Leave the router port PVID on 1. The rest of the networks will be tagged, and need to be tagged so they traverse the ALL port profile link to the switch correctly. Make sure all switch-to-switch link ports are using the ALL profile, and that every switch, if its at the end of the chain, has its uplink port also using ALL
And lastly, make sure you are setting DHCP to the right IP (you probably are, it wont let you get it radically wrong, but make sure the gateway UP for each vlan is actually going to the router IP for that vlan)
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Other things to check -
- Have you set any switch ACLs that might be bocking a vlan to itself? this will prevent clients in that vlan getting an IP and communicating
- Same as above but for an EAP ACL, which would effect wifi clients
- if you have a gateway ACL that block a vlan to the Gateway Management Page, only select TCP protocol for this otherwise stuff goes weird
- Have you enabled IP-MAC binding and selected the option to only allow the listed MACs to connect (which woukld block anything not in the list)
- Same for general MAC filtering
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@GRL Looked at all your screenshots and from what I can see everything of mine is the same
VLAN set to all LAN ports on my router:
PVID set to 1 (this is the same on all the LAN ports on my router:
Every switch port set to ALL apart from my Garage Camera port which I am using as the test client / port to get this working:
I'm not 100% what you mean by the comment but this is where I've set the requested IP address of the client:
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@GRL Thanks again
Switch ACLs:
EAP:
Gateway ACL:
IP-MAC Binding:
MAC Filtering:
All in all it's very very simple and basic what I've done its a brand new setup with just a few DHCP reservations, 3 VLANS and 3 Wifi SSID's I honestly can't see why this isn't working
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i sent you a message last night, take a look
Its hard to say whats going on here, this all seems right. There could be some small details or configuration you have made somewhere interfering with DHCP, there are a few more things to check i think before we go down the factory reset / re-adopt route
What happens if you configure a device with a static IP on a vlan (not needing DHCP), set a switch port to the same vlan, and connect - does the device have connectivity ?
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