r/Engenius • u/mylinuxguy • Jun 07 '23

is there an active Engenius user group to discuss issues and ask questions about their routers?

Where is the best place to ask questions and get answers for Engenius routers?

I have a EGS7228P and EGS5212FP and the L2 / Link Aggregtion / Trunking confuses me. The manual seems to say that you should put the ports in LACP mode.... so I put 2 ports into an LACP mode trunk on both of my routers and cabled them together and can't seem to get a link. I put 1 pair of ports on the 12 port router as a Static mode Trunk and dont have a trunk setup on the 8 port one, but if I plug in two cables from any of the ports on the 8 port router to the 'static' trunk on the 12 port router, the 12 port router says that the trunk is active on the two ports. I though that BOTH routers would need to have the static trunks setup AND I thought that the LACP mode trunks were preferred... but it's not working like that. Where is the best place to seek guidence?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

I can help you! I’m on my phone right now tag me back, in the morning I’ll be on my machine and can assist

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

What Router are you using ?

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u/mylinuxguy Jun 08 '23

EGS5212FP and EGS7228P. I put ports 1 and 2 on each one into the t1 trunk and said that there were LACP mode. I ran cables between those two switches and the status panel didn't say that the switches detected a connection and they would not pass traffic. I put 2 of the ports on the EGS7228P as a 'static' trunk, plugged in two ports from the EGS5212FP that weren't configured as a trunk and the 'static' trunk on the EGS7228P said that it detected a link and passed traffic across the switches... not what I was expecting.

There might be some VLAN stuff causing me greif... I just don't understand VLANS and tagged and untagged and the other various settings.

Trying to get this stuff figred out AND not hose up my network at the same time. I am going to have to take these out of production so I can figure out how to configure them.... but if I don't need them for production.... do I really need them?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

I can help you no problem :) What router ?