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Recent content by Seth Harman

  1. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    Managed switches are useful in conjunction with GNP if the intent is to allow wired clients into the VLANs you're creating. Another example in my case is I've got a wired security camera system that's being forced into the GNP IoT VLAN by hooking it to a managed switch and forcing that port to...
  2. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    My pleasure, but once again Asus is putting out so much confusing information it's like throwing darts with a blindfold on to determine if a given router/node combination will fully support GNP/wired VLAN. I remember at the very beginning the belief was if a router ran 3006 firmware it would...
  3. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    I've seen that page before and I still can't wrap my head around what they're trying to show. If that AiMesh node doesn't support Ethernet VLAN tagging the only thing that managed switch would accomplish is allow you to use it to VLAN tag Ethernet traffic for clients directly connected to ports...
  4. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    No idea if they recommend any specific switches but based on the information they're putting out there around GNP and VLANs I wouldn't trust anything they'd recommend anyway. Your best bet is to find posts from people who say "I own [insert brand/model here] managed switch and it works fine."
  5. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    The RT-BE58U in use as an AiMesh node will properly support any GNP wireless VLANs created on the main router but has no ability to VLAN tag wired clients connected directly to any of its Ethernet ports.
  6. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    If Asus support told you a managed switch is required for GNP/VLAN support whoever you were speaking with doesn't know what they're talking about in the context of GNP/VLANs. GNP is for managing *WIRELESS* VLANs and "VLAN" (which is shown in the Asus web interface as a tab inside "LAN" on...
  7. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    The managed switch is for situations where you need wired clients to be members of a VLAN and your AiMesh nodes don't support wired VLAN tagging. I don't remember off the top of my head your specific setup as it's been awhile since I've been in this thread, but an AiMesh node can't magically...
  8. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    It's possible you got a bad switch, it happens. The only other thing to test would be to revert a node to stock firmware and see if it solves the problem for it.
  9. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    Nodes: Current Version : 3.0.0.6.102_37073-g3124d2d_968-gc6148_BB0B Switches: 1.0.0 Build 20230218 Rel.50633
  10. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    No idea what to tell you, I've got two of them and have experienced no such issues.
  11. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    The RT-BE58U is advertised as having "Smart Home Master" and not VLAN support, but as an AiMesh node in my network which has a Pro router as the main router it does support WiFi VLAN properly, i.e. clients connecting to an RT-BE58U node using my IoT VLAN SSID are being assigned an IP from the...
  12. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    Guest Network Pro is currently functioning on my AiMesh setup and my nodes are RT-BE58Us and my main router is an RT-AX88U Pro. If they forgot to mention the RT-BE58U as compatible what other products, if any, did they forget in their list?
  13. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    If GNP/VLANs aren't an option you could revert to non-3006 firmware and install YazFi until such time as you upgrade your AiMesh nodes.
  14. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    Nah, just check Asus' excellent documentation for the answer ;) You know jokes aside, I'm assuming he disabled DHCP on the main router since he's got pfsense doing it so maybe that also turns off the GNP DHCP server(s)/disables the VLANs. Maybe enable DHCP on the main router and disable that...
  15. Seth Harman

    Switch capabilities of AiMesh Nodes?

    I'd agree that specific firmware revision is probably the culprit.
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