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EnGenius EAP300 with UTM9.2 Home Edition

I have been running UTM 9 Virtual Appliance on a VMware farm within my home for a few years now. Just a great product that has all the features I need to manage my families needs and learn for my enterprise profession. My home network contains (5) APs consisting of EnGenius EAP300's. Although everything works great, I wanted to configure the APs into a mesh network. However, the UTM does not recognize the APs within the Pending list. After reading all of the Sophos documentation and Internet research, it appears that the UTM requires a Sophos AP30 (or other Sophos models). I am basing an assumption that the Sophos AP30 is either a rebranded EAP300 or a modified EAP300.

Questions:
1) Is it possible to setup a mesh network with my HW/SW components?
2) If #1=yes, do I need to reflash the EAP300's with AP30 firmware?
3) If #2=yes, where can I get the proper AP30 firmware?
4) If possible to create the mesh network, do I need a Radius server?
5) Is it possible for UTM to create a mesh network with the EAP300's current EnGenius fireware?

Home Version
Model: ASG Software
Firmware: 9.210-20
Pattern: 71507

EnGenius EAP300 APs with power injectors (power cords)
HW version 1
Fireware version: 1.5.1

Appreciate any assistance!
Michael Petit

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0 apijnappels over 9 years ago

I believe this is not possible even though the AP's are very similar. Others have tried flashing AP30 fw onto these devices and either bricked them or any way weren't able to use them in the UTM.

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0 Scott_Klassen over 9 years ago

In order for APs to be controlled by UTM, they MUST be Sophos/Astaro branded units. EnGenius is the OEM, but there are some hardware differences making firmware incompatible between EnGenius and Sophos branded units. There is no way to make this work using EnGenius branded units.

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0 rfcat_vk over 9 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

And finally, AP30s don't mesh, only AP50 and AP100s do.

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0 kzkydh over 9 years ago in reply to rfcat_vk

Thanks for the guidance and assistance.

Michael Petit
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