Implementing guest WiFi

[DiscoDave]

Good Morning all,

I have a Cisco Aironet device I wish to use to provide guest wifi access at my workplace, as well as corporate internal use. Thanks to a forum member many moons back I was able to configure the access point to broadcast two SSID's and assigned two different vlans respectively (first one for corporate internal use, and second on the DMZ).

The AP only has one Ethernet port, and is connected to a netgear managed switch. The netgear switch has three vlans configured on it. DMZ, Lan and Telecoms.

How would I go about configuring the switch so that the connecting AP is dual-homed to both VLAN groups, therefore providing the network segregation I need for the public wifi? I've done a quick google and "trunking" has come up a few times, but on my switch it states that all members of a trunk must be in the same VLAN Group.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[paradigm]

You do need to configure trunking, your initial google-fu was strong.

If the netgear switch supports dot1q encapsulation then its pretty straight forward to achieve.

On the Aironet, you can configure the Fast Ethernet port to have a native vlan membership as well as being able to utilise the VLANs listed in your trunk, such as:

Interface Fa0/1
Switchport Trunk Encapsulation Dot1q
Switchport Mode Trunk
Switchport Trunk Native Vlan XX
Switchport Trunk Allowed Vlan XX,YY,ZZ

What's the switch model?

 

[DiscoDave]

Hi Paradigm, thanks for your reply.

To answer your question the switch is a Netgear GS724T.