@marteswigg Ubiquiti is lying through their teeth with their datasheets. Total BS. I had to buy a 24V passive capable switch to run the WAPs. No other solution. Period. Dot.

LLDP won't do the trick. The WAP has to be booted up, i.e. powered up, to entertain LLDP traffic. I tried it anyway, but of course it had no effect. I've since got a PoE tester and the switch tests...

I recently provisioned aTP Link SG3424P switch. I have a UAP-AC-LR access point that I want to power from the switch. I have confirmed that the UAP-AC-LR is 802.3af Mode A compliant in accordance...

Thanks for the quick replies. I did try static, and of course the firmware says it is a bad MAC and won't accept it. I think you are right, there is no way to do this on managed TP-Link hardware.

This question also applies to the TL-SG3424P. I have a strange piece of equipment here with an aberrant MAC address of 11:22:33:44:55:66. Yes, I know this this is not an EUI or IEEE compliant MAC...