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      moosport @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz

      It is set to trunk. Ran trace at the vmnic but did not see dhcpdiscover traffic. At this point I'm not sure where the tags are being dropped.

      Trunk is set from Unifi port (APs), both Unifi port and Aruba port, Aruba SFP+ port, portgroup vlan 4095.

      lanportgroup.jpg

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        If you pcap on the parent NIC in pfSense you can see what VLANs traffic is tagged with when it arrives.

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          moosport @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10
          port25vlan50.jpg

          I see it in the SFP+ going into Esx host.

          Following these instruction to trace traffic for vmnic. No vlan traffic was captured.

          https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-F1AC7100-FFBB-4414-9B70-E5537C15E192.html

          Next step is to capture dropped packets. This will probably shed some light.
          https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-84627D49-F449-4F77-B931-3C55E4A8ECA1.html

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            moosport @moosport
            last edited by stephenw10

            Found out the setup requires vdswitch. Moving to physical.

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              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @moosport
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              @moosport said in Design help for better control:

              vdswitch

              So you have multiple esxi hosts? No mention of that

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                moosport @johnpoz
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                @johnpoz running the free version which only support vdswitch for first 60 days.

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                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @moosport
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                  @moosport you sure do not need vdswitches to do vlans on esxi.. My point is you make no mention of having multiple esxi hosts in a cluster - nor do you show such a thing on your drawing.

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                    moosport @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz
                    No multiple hosts. Just one host.
                    No vlan traffic is captured in vswitch. Only default vlan traffic is in the trace.

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                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @moosport
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                      @moosport well where did you come up with you need vdswitch then?

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                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @moosport
                        last edited by johnpoz

                        @moosport said in Design help for better control:

                        No vlan traffic is captured in vswitch

                        That has zero to do with vdswitch..

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                          moosport @johnpoz
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                          @johnpoz root cause analysis was suggested in a different forum.

                          Wire shark did capture vlan traffic on port going to ESX host. But pktcap-uw did not capture any on vmnic. Promiscuous mode was enabled too.

                          Switch configuration is correct.

                          Only data point which I still could not figure out is wireshark trace contains icmpv6 but not icmp dhcp discovery.

                          Neither ipv6 is enable on pfsense or unifi.

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