[MVMA] Status of Vandalia water tank mesh

[Ken Noffsinger]

Chuck,

We discussed this issue among ourselves via e-mail in late December of last
year. Nothing was posted on the reflector.

I have a Netgear eight port switch and you supplied me with a VLAN
configuration. Everything worked fine initially, but at some point through
some kind of apparent DHCP snafu, I was no longer able to communicate with
my switch via my internal network. I would get a warning box telling me
that the switch was in a different subnet, if I remember the prompt
correctly. Although the switch seemed to work properly even if I
couldn't get to it, that defeated the purpose because I was trying to set
up the switch so I could add other accessories later.

Also, I have only four ports on my router, and I need each. If I use one
for the switch, then I must have access to the switch configuration in case
I have issues with the non-mesh device that was connected directly to the
router but now would be connected to the switch. And of course, if I can't
communicate with the switch, housekeeping like firmware updates are very
much complicated.

I assume this is a rather trivial problem for someone with decent
networking skills to fix, but I am not among that group.

Ken

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:41 PM Chuck Gelm <nc8q-mesh at gelm.net> wrote:

> On 8/16/20 10:14 AM, Ken Noffsinger wrote:
> > Chuck,
> >
> > I certainly would have no problem with a tunnel, but I was never able
> > to resolve the DHCP issue with my Netgear switch. Hence, internet
> > connectivity is not available to my nodes.
> >
> > Ken
>
> Hi, Ken:
>
>   I am not familiar with your DHCP issue.
> Was this mentioned on this email reflector?
> If yes, it will be in the archives, else please describe.
> You will need a VLAN capable switch (or a Microtik hAP or GL iNet AR
> (150,300M16,750))
> to give internet access to your node(s).
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
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