UCG Ultra VLAN DHCP

I am in the process of slowly optimizing my home LAN/WAN. Most recently, I traded pfSense+ running on a Netgate 1100 appliance for a UCG Ultra. It was the last non-Unifi piece in my networking stack.

As is often recommended, I have everything working with essentially default configurations before trying to assert some firewall rules to restrict intraVLAN traffic and I hit a bump in the road with my cameras. I have a mix of WiFi and hardwire Amcrest cameras. I am having difficulty getting the hardwire cameras to pick up a IP in the Camera VLAN.

The cameras themselves do not have any VLAN settings in their configuration. In my previous experience, I would need to set the switchport to be untagged VLAN 3.

However, once I do that, the camera never picks up an IP from DHCP for that network. It just shows the VLAN ID and a new field “Virtual Network Trigger”, a term I have not found anywhere except in Reddit posts where people also don’t know what it is :slight_smile:

So long as I leave the switchport in the Default VLAN, the camera picks up a Default network IP and works fine, other than I want it on a different VLAN so I can properly limit VLAN hopping.

I hope it is something that is behind a checkbox that I have missed or maybe something that is just Unifi weirdness that I don’t know about yet :slight_smile:

Robert

Have you tried checking you haven’t made a config error by testing with a laptop on your camera vlan ? Perhaps there are some limitations on the camera that you are not aware of.

The port from the switch to the router allows VLAN3, or all VLANs? The port on the router likewise?

Did you power cycle the camera/port after changing the VLAN?

Port 3. You have it set for Cameras…allow all. Change to Cameras but BLOCK ALL.

Then restart the cameras.