ER7206 - two ports to one switch - switching loop despite different VLANs

ER7206 - two ports to one switch - switching loop despite different VLANs

ER7206 - two ports to one switch - switching loop despite different VLANs
ER7206 - two ports to one switch - switching loop despite different VLANs
Monday - last edited Tuesday
Model: ER7206 (TL-ER7206)  
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Hello, 

 

I have two VLANs with different networks. Both VLANs are set to untagged to only one port each. 

 

Both ports are now connected to one switch, where both ports are set to VLAN1 untagged, that effectively merges both networks into one broadcast-domain. (I need to to that because thats the only way to get two IPv6 networks from two providers so that all clients can use both connections, so actually what the device is designed to... load balance two providers)

 

But the ER7206 shouldnt switch between VLAN1 and VLAN2 so therefore the L2 domain would be seperated on the Router... but something is still switching. 

 

Any possible solution to that, so I can still use both IPv6 networks with the clients? 

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Re:ER7206 - two ports to one switch - switching loop despite different VLANs-Solution
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I found the issue, Im using a Unifi switches and RSTP was activated. It seems that the ER7206 was forwarding the frames from VLAN1 to VLAN2 and therefore creating the loop. after disabling RSTP it works as expected. Now I just figure out that TP-Link really s**** with IPv6. Even though IPv6-PD works and I have now two prefixes and two routes on each client, the ER7206 still advertises the route even if one WAN is down. Its just replacing the gateway with fe80 but the clients try to forward all the traffic to that interface now... yikes.
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Re:ER7206 - two ports to one switch - switching loop despite different VLANs-Solution
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I found the issue, Im using a Unifi switches and RSTP was activated. It seems that the ER7206 was forwarding the frames from VLAN1 to VLAN2 and therefore creating the loop. after disabling RSTP it works as expected. Now I just figure out that TP-Link really s**** with IPv6. Even though IPv6-PD works and I have now two prefixes and two routes on each client, the ER7206 still advertises the route even if one WAN is down. Its just replacing the gateway with fe80 but the clients try to forward all the traffic to that interface now... yikes.
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