Unifi 1 SSID, multiple VLANs

[Kazek]

Hi,

I know that there is no native support for dynamic VLAN tagging in Unifi system but is there any workaround? I have 20+ Unifi APs with 1 SSID and need to tag clients to separate VLANS.

Thanks for any suggestions

 

regards

Jacob

[synaesthesia]

What's the reason for wanting to do that?

[Kazek]

100+ apartments, each with 1 cable connection, each on separate VLAN. All of them connected to Unifi Switch and EdgeRouter. Unifi APs are on the hallways delivering wireless connections. The point is to connect wireless clients to right VLAN.

[synaesthesia]

OK, why not just have a separate ssid for each apartment block?

[Kazek]

1. So Clients can automatically assign to the closest AP and access their network f.e. from Laundry room or

2. So There will be no 100+ SSID

3. So it will look professional

4. Unifi can have max 4SSID per AP. That's not enough for my deployment

[m25man]

Sounds like you bought into the wrong system there...

You are asking a $1500 Unifi system to perform the job of a $50k Aruba/Cisco system[emoji38]

Bad move...

[Kazek]

It's done now. My question is if there is any workaround or not?

[synaesthesia]

As @m25man said, wrong system for that job. I doubt there's a workaround for that particular issue. It pays to plan ahead!

[Kazek]

Thanks for reply! Can you suggest then what is good system to do that? Possibly the cheapest one

[Blue_Cookeh]

How will your APs know what traffic to tag with what VLAN even if you manage to do that?

[DMcCoy]

How will your APs know what traffic to tag with what VLAN even if you manage to do that?

 

802.1x radius assigned vlans based on user/group/certificate authentication.

 

It would have to be in enterprise controller/AP area, cisco, HP, Aruba, ruckus. Even then you'd have to check the exact specifications on how it works, controller centric traffic would be easier because you only have the vlans there, but it won't be much use if there is any meshing going on.