On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 12:37, James Knott via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2020-07-10 12:32 PM, Val Kulkov wrote: > > then associate your guest SSID with that VLAN. > > Yes, you associate the SSID with a VLAN. It's entirely possible to have > a Guest SSID without VLANs on a WiFi router, that uses only routing to > forward the guest traffic out to the 'net. VLAN is a LAN function that > has nothing to do with WiFi and SSID is a WiFi function that has > nothing to do with the LAN. > Yes. I agree, you don't really need VLANs if you have only one WiFi access point. But if you have more than one WiFi access point and you want to avoid WDS, which is often not great in congested environments, you'd use Ethernet and VLANs to connect your Wi-Fi access points.
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