You almost certainly need to set 1/1/1 to untagged vlan2. The 6450 will then accept all untagged traffic coming into 1/1/1 and place it in Vlan2. That traffic will then go across your 1/2/1 port as tagged in vlan2. Would be shocked if the asus AP was smart enough to understand vlans and tag the traffic itself. As it stands now the 1/1/1 port is blocking traffic from your AP because it is not tagged vlan2 already. Try that first and your setup may just work as is. I ran mine as you described for quite some time.Question for the experts, as this is my first layer 3 switch I am really digging into. I my ICX 6450-24p flashed with the R firmware. Now, do I have to use VLANS in a layer 3 sense? using virtual interfaces and such as per the docs I have found.
I am trying to set up my VLANS, using PFSense as my router and have the VLANS set up there. I am going from PFSense ---> 6450 via a single link. On the ICX6450, I have "tagged" the VLAN's I have in pfsense on the port 1/2/1 (10Gbps Fiber) with the default vlan 1 untagged.
However when I set say port 1/1/1 to VLAN 2 (wireless and tagged) as it goes to my Asus AP - no traffic appears to pass through at all and clioent can not get an DHCP address from PFSense. My last switch was an HP procurve and this set up worked.
Or do I need a DHCP / IP Helper set up on the ICX6450?
Are you doing inter-VLAN routing that requires high speed? if not and things are simply segregated into vlans then there really is no need for you to go down the rabbit hole of setting up separate DHCP servers and ACLs for the 6450. You can just tag all the vlans on the 6450 switch interface connected to pfsense, then use the pfsense gui to set up everything.
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