Route 10 Hard wired devices and VLAN assignment

Routers
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Something strange is going on with the VLAN assignment and the LAN ports.

Lets say I have a device named BOB and I assigned this device to VLAN 10.

I connect BOB to wifi and it gets a VLAN 10 IP
I connect BOB to LAN and it gets VLAN 1 IP
while connected to LAN I change BOB’s assigned VLAN to VLAN 10 and not only does BOB’s VLAN get assigned to 10 but the LAN port its plugged into is also set to VLAN 10 and BOB is unable to get an IP.
I change the LAN port to allow all VLANs and blank out the assigned VLAN and BOB gets a VLAN 1 IP again.

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Thanks for such a thorough report. Let me make sure I understand the steps to reproduce.

  1. Assign a client to a VLAN
  2. Connect the client wirelessly to receive an IP from the VLAN assigned in step 1
  3. Connect the same client by ethernet, receive IP from the default VLAN (probably 1)
  4. Reassign the client to VLAN 10 instead of VLAN 1 (or your configured default)

The result you found was that the LAN interface on the switch would suddenly be configured with the VLAN from step 1 as the Native VLAN, is that correct?

  • Before step 3, did you keep the wireless connection active or switch it off?
  • Could you reproduce this on your network from just a wired client without establishing a wireless connection?
  • Do you expect the client configuration to be shared across multiple network interfaces on the device? I think you would be required to define the settings on a per-interface basis. If they have unique MAC addresses, they are technically a unique client.