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    How to get pfSense WAN to accept VLAN 0

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      Jarhead @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10
      Is there any chance vlan0 can be fixed in 2.6 with tunable??
      Reason I'm asking is my brother uses pfSense also, and he does not have a problem getting an address from Frontier. My router at his house does not get an address because of vlan0.
      I had him give me his config and I'm gonna try to put it on the same hardware he uses to see if it works at my house but I can't imagine it's that easy.
      Just a fluke maybe?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        I'm not aware of any tunable that would do it. What driver is that? Did you try 22.05 there? Or are you able to?

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          Jarhead @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10
          I didn't.
          He's using 2.6 as am I and I can't understand why he's not effected by vlan0.

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            michaellacroix @Jarhead
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            @jarhead Is her using pfsense as a VM? The software switch strip out the vlan tag

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              Jarhead @michaellacroix
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              @michaellacroix
              Nope. Protectli vault.
              I have the same hardware for my test router.
              His works, mine doesn't.

              Might try his config on my protectli this weekend just to see if it'll work at my house.

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                michaellacroix @Jarhead
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                @jarhead Let us know your findings.

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                  michaellacroix @Jarhead
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                  @jarhead I wonder if frontier is making changes so their fiber offerings are compatible to all third party products.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    Hmm, that's weird. Were you able to confirm they are actually using VLAN0 there?

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                      Jarhead @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10
                      Yes. Plus, if they weren't, my router would have worked also.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Yeah, it would just be easy to think you are hitting that because you expect to.
                        I know of no reason why two nearly identical devices would behave differently.
                        Different NIC firmware maybe?

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                          michaellacroix @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10

                          Hi Stephen, can you verify 22.11 that is scheduled for November of this year will be using freebsd 14 or main (as it is)?
                          Thanks

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            That is certainly the intention. You can never be 100% sure but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't at this point.

                            Steve

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                              c45p32
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                              I loaded dev snapshot this morning onto my back-up router em0 and wasn't able to connect on VLAN0. I don't have a way to test igb0 without taking my main router down.

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                                michaellacroix @c45p32
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                                @c45p32 I will be using my test pc this afternoon and it has the em0 driver also. I'll let you know my results also.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                  In my testing here neither igb or em appear to pass vlan0 tagged traffic. It doesn't appear in a pcap.
                                  But other drivers do and pfSense will accept and respond to that without netgraph.

                                  So as I understand it the script does work in Opnsense / FreeBSD 13.1?
                                  Can someone confirm that?

                                  If so it's either a regression in 14 or they have patched it themselves. Or they are using the kmod non-iflib driver.

                                  Steve

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                                    Jarhead @stephenw10
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                                    @stephenw10 Opnsense works with em and vlan0.

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                                      Schwiing @Jarhead
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                                      @jarhead Hasn't Opnsense not had this problem at all (natively working with VLAN0)?

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                                        Jarhead @Schwiing
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                                        @schwiing Just since moving to FreeBSD 13. Had the same issue before 13 though, ie not accepting vlan0.

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                                          Schwiing @Jarhead
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                                          @jarhead Sounds right. I'd assume then with PFsense going to FreeBSD 14, this should be solved...maybe i wont need a switch between the ONT and Router.

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Jarhead
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                                            @jarhead said in How to get pfSense WAN to accept VLAN 0:

                                            Opnsense works with em and vlan0

                                            And also without requiring a netgraph script?

                                            @schwiing said in How to get pfSense WAN to accept VLAN 0:

                                            I'd assume then with PFsense going to FreeBSD 14, this should be solved...

                                            You would think but it doesn't appear to be the case so there must be more involved here.

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