Pass-through of VLAN for IPTV
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Hi everyone.
I have Netgate 1100 and a quick summary of what is now on it:
WAN side, internet incoming after a media splitter that splits the house incoming into IPTV and internet.
LAN side, i now use OPT and there we have three VLAN, lets call them VLAN A, B and C.
They go to a Unifi switch.IPTV uses VLAN 243 in incoming from house.
Now i want to get rid of the media splitter that separates to TV and internet and to this stuff in pfsense and Unifi (then i can get rid of two boxes that are connected to the TV-system).So, i will then connect incoming cable to pfsense and there i have to do some kind of pass-through of VLAN 243 and then trunk it together with the other VLANS on the OPT port. So i will then have four VLAN on OPT and i can then separate 243 out to desired switch ports to the TV systems.
Of course i want 243 to be totally isolated from everything else in the network.Can someone please help me with this?
I am a beginner of this so nice step by step would be nice thanks.I hope everything is somewhat understandable at least.
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@xanthopteryx If the media splitter can be eliminated at all I would look into adding VLAN 243 to the WAN and OPT ports as tagged.
Nothing more than that -- just change the switch (not the pfSense core software but the switch configuration) to have VLAN 243 tagged on all the ports - just like any other L2 VLAN tagging.
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@rcoleman-netgate Thanks. So, into Switch settings, VLAN, add 243, add member 1 and tick tag, add member 3 and click tag.
That's it, and now it flows in and out WAN/OPT without issues? -
@xanthopteryx ¯_(ツ)_/¯ In theory...
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@rcoleman-netgate I did this. I also did the config on my Unifi switch. So far so good. In Theory....
Then i borrowed a bunch of TP cables from work since i needed longer ones if i am going to get this thing to work, and better to borrow and try first and buy if it works.
I put on one of the TV boxes. Image on TV. I pulled the network cable. Image froze.
I put in the new cable from Unifi and...
...still frozen.
Waited.
Frozen.
Ahh, shit, of course something is going wrong, as it always should when doing things like that and suddenly, image started moving and IT WORKED!
Then i copied port settings in Unifi to another port, another cable to the second TV box and, VOILA! It worked, both boxes at the same time!So now i can get rid of one media splitter (that splits out the TV signal, internet signal, phone signal (if you have IP phone) and management signal (if you have that), and one switch that splits TV signal to the two boxes.
Just ordered some cables to fix all this.
Thank you very very very very very much! Made life So much easier and i have really struggled to find a solution and found rouing tips and other complicated stuff.
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@xanthopteryx Glad to hear it works! Yeah there's no need to do L3 when a simple L2 modification is needed :D