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Re: Consumer products with baked-in VLAN tagging

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Apr 5 06:59:56 2015

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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 11:59:51 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Robert Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 05/04/2015 03:32, Robert Seastrom wrote:
> As you may know if you've played around with recent Apple Airports
> (Express at least) in bridge mode with "guest network" turned on, they
> seem to know about 802.1q and have fairly reasonable or at least
> defensible behavior out of the box - that is to say they move the
> "native" SSID as untagged, and the "guest" SSID tagged 802.1q VLAN
> 1003.
> 
> This behavior does not appear to be field-modifyable.

Didn't know about that trick.

I'm going to immediately enable vlan 1003 on the cisco switch that my
express is connected to.

Nick

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