What occurs when ports are configured as access or trunk?

[mldowling]

Hello @motivated,

@motivated

What is the impact if the ports are configured as “access” and not “trunk” if the devices support 802.1Q?

If a device does not support 802.1Q (such as a PC or printer) connected to a port, then the device will only use the Native VLAN (also seen in Peplink systems as Untagged). It is possible to set within a Trunk network a default VLAN (i.e. 1234) that will be for devices not using 802.1Q, so they don’t then use the native VLAN (VLAN 0 &/or 1 depending on the brand of routers and switches).

So using your device with “Trunk” on the port will be OK if you are OK with your device using the Native VLAN or Default VLAN in your network.
If you configure the port as “Access”, then you need to have set up your VLANs to use first, and there are several posts already here in the form on doing just that, here is a guide to get you started.

Guide to setting up VLANs for Printing with Firewall isolation

Guide to setting up VLANs for Printing with Firewall isolation This guide if focused on establishing a basic VLAN to get people stared. for other initial device configurations, please refer elsewhere within the Peplink forum. Step 1: Setup you unit within InControl2 Follow this guide on setting your equipment up in InControl2 as everthing I’ll take you through will be based on that Step 2: Create your required VLANs within InControl2 Navigate to your organisations group and choose the drop do…

Happy to Help,
Marcus