vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201

vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201

vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201
vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201
2 weeks ago - last edited 2 weeks ago
Model: EAP225-Outdoor  
Hardware Version: V3
Firmware Version: 5.2.3 Build 20250709 Rel. 67584(4555)

On my network, I have two VLANs: VLAN1 and VLAN10. I started with 2 acces points TL-WA1201, and in those, I can create the two VLANs. 

Both vlans work well.

 

I recently added an eap225-outdoor and I just wanted to copy these settings.

However, if I do, on vlan1, devices do not get an ip-adress. Devices on vlan10 work fine.
On this forum, some people people had the same remark, and the solution seems to be to disable vlan1, so to have an ssid without vlan. 

I tested this, and it indeed allows devices to get an ip adress.

 

Why do both systems from the same supplier behave differently?

What is technically the difference between no vlan (disabled) and vlan 1?

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Re:vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201-Solution
2 weeks ago - last edited 2 weeks ago

Hi  @azery 

Thanks for posting here.

TL-WA1201 and other similar APs are our earlier-generation products. They create a large VLAN (VLAN1 by default, determined by the first SSID's VLAN ID) and forward default VLAN data with untagged packets to all other VLAN SSIDs. However, this mechanism is not secure enough, so current EAP models no longer adopt this approach.

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Re:vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201-Solution
2 weeks ago - last edited 2 weeks ago

Hi  @azery 

Thanks for posting here.

TL-WA1201 and other similar APs are our earlier-generation products. They create a large VLAN (VLAN1 by default, determined by the first SSID's VLAN ID) and forward default VLAN data with untagged packets to all other VLAN SSIDs. However, this mechanism is not secure enough, so current EAP models no longer adopt this approach.

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Re:vlan 1 ip adress - difference between eap225 and TL-WA1201
2 weeks ago

  @Vincent-TP Thank you for the reply, it clarfies some things.

It does however not explain why setting VLAN 1 blocks  the devices from getting an ip-adres.

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