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Ran into an interesting issue with the QNAP's default gateway config after switching my router from an external device to virtualized PFSense on the QNAP.
Wondering if anyone else has noticed or run-into this?
My TVS-1282T will no longer acknowledge it's default gateway route now that my "router" has an IP address on the QNAP's own Virtual Switch. There seems to be some additional configuration needed or perhaps a bug with the QNAP OS/config utilities in this regard?
Installed PFSense in a VM on my QNAP NAS using the network topology itemized below. Everything seemed fine until I discovered that the QNAP refused to assign its own default gateway to an IP allocated within a virtual switch config assigned to a VM (for the internal LAN interface to pfSense).
pfSense seems to be operating just fine, everything else on my network can access the configured "default gateway" to the PFSense LAN interface - the only problem came on the QNAP side of things where it is refusing to talk to it's gateway IP anymore, and wouldn't let me confirm/update the setting to the 192.168.4.1 IP since it belonged to a virtual device.
The virtual switch
Any suggestions on how to maybe get this working without having to move pfSense to a separate HW device?
Physical Topology:
wan: cable modem -> QNAP eth4
lan: switch LAG (ports 21-23) -> QNAP bond0 (eth1+eth2+eth3)
QNAP switch config:
virtual switch 1: qnap bond0, static IP on 192.168.4.0/24, gw: 192.168.4.1
virtual switch 4: qnap eth4, no IP config, no dhcp... (assigned dhcp by modem in pfSense)
VM network config for pfSense:
Adapter 1 - vmeth0 (virtIO driver) <- QNAP virtual switch 4 (WAN), dhcp via cable-modem
Adapter 2 - vmeth1 (virtIO driver) <- QNAP virtual switch 1 (LAN), static IP 192.168.4.1
TIA,
-Fabrizio