NOTE: There are many different network types that can be created:

Any of these networks can be allocated to a VLAN.

• Corporate is a general purpose network and by default is assigned to LAN.
  • The UniFi controller will provision not only the VLAN itself but also a matching IP subnet for this VLAN.
  • Clients associated to the VLAN uses the IP-interface as a default gateway to reach anything outside the VLAN, like other hosts on other VLAN's, the internet and so on.
  • On this VLAN it's possible to configure a DHCP-server locally on the switch to provide IP-addresses to clients.
  • IP subnets exist at Layer 3, whereas UniFi switches are purely Layer 2.
  • Therefore, if you have no USG, there's no point in creating a “Corporate” VLAN.

• Guest will apply the Guest Control setting if you enable the Guest Portal.

• VLAN Only will remove any subnet options and can be used to define VLANs for pure VLAN tagging purposes by Unifi switches.
  • This allows you to add/remove a VLAN tag to network packets on a switch port (for instance) connected to another, non-Unifi network device that expects/sends these.
  • It is not possible to configure any DHCP on this, since VLAN is a L2 technology and DHCP requires an IP-interface, which is a L3 technology, so this VLAN should either be connected to an external DHCP-server or use static IP-addresses on the clients.
  • This is the best choice to use for a VLAN, if not using a USG.

• VPN Client is USG specific.
• Site-to-Site VPN is USG specific.
• Remote user VPN is USG specific.