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    unable to access ips on vlan after changing Gateway/dns

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      Jarhead @comet424
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      @comet424 You won't need another router, just a switch (or more) that can handle the amount of devices you have.
      I had, upgraded the machine with more physical interfaces, 5 vlans on my pfSense. Some people have double that.
      As long as you have a vlan capable switch, you're good.

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Jarhead
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        @jarhead ^ exactly all that is needed is at least 1 interface on pfsense and vlan capable switch and you can create as many vlans as you want.

        If you want to do multiple vlans on wifi networks - best to get a AP that is capable off that, some wifi routers you can run 3rd party firmware on and do it. dd-wrt or openwrt supports vlans as long as the hardware of the wifi router does. Or just buy AP that support - unifi APs are pretty popular around here. I have 3 of them - they work great.

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          comet424 @johnpoz
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          @johnpoz ah ok so a unifi router can support like multiple vlans

          like the mitok switch i have does support vlans... and now i wanna have a wifi for lan devices like cell phones or my laptops that arent hard wired... and another wifi for the IoT devices the way i been doing it is where i use the 192.168.0.1-254 range ad segmented a section to do iot and lan and dmz say..

          so would you then then Trunk from the smart switch to the AP Unifi router ap and then it knows which devices... like do you setup a seperate Wifi login password for each vlan?

          and which unifi ap is good one.. i have heard of them i dunnohow to use them as i did watch a video years ago they hard to use etc...

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            comet424 @comet424
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            and whats better then unifi or the ddwrt and if you look on amazon .ca can u tell me which router or AP ud recommend that would work as i havent kept up in routers for years if it last me 10 yrs i ok with them so i dont upgrade often anymore

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              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @comet424
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              @comet424 said in unable to access ips on vlan after changing Gateway/dns:

              ike do you setup a seperate Wifi login password for each vlan?

              Yeah you normally setup different ssids for the different vlans - but you could get fancy and do dynamic vlans after an auth to say radius..

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                comet424 @johnpoz
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                @johnpoz ah ok cool so your not limied to just 1 like on the asus or dlink or tplink ones i have

                i did try looking up the unif but didnt see where you can do multiple vlans
                do all the unif allow this? and whats better dwrt or unif?

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                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @comet424
                  last edited by johnpoz

                  @comet424 said in unable to access ips on vlan after changing Gateway/dns:

                  i did try looking up the unif but didnt see where you can do multiple vlans

                  Did you look at the summary page for say the U6-lite, one of their popular models currently

                  https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless/products/u6-lite-us

                  BSSID 8 per radio
                  VLAN 802.1Q

                  I am not aware of any of their models that don't support vlans.. I have 3 different models of their older wifi 5 models, the pro, the lite and the LR.. And before that I had one of their first models that all supported multiple vlans. I currently have 4 different SSIDs running on mine, all on different vlans.

                  As to what is better dd-wrt, I would say the unifi are true APs.. the dd-wrt is 3rd party firmware to run on soho wifi routers. While it can vastly improve the feature set over native firmware. Your still at the mercy of the hardware, not saying some soho hardware is not fine. But unifi AP are designed to be actual AP.. they are all powered by poe, so you can proper mount them where a AP belongs, etc.. I would never ever go back to running soho wifi routers as my wifi APs..

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                    comet424 @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz
                    hi john i finally got a AP i picked up a tplink ep650 model i got it from a re-store habitat for humanity store for like 40 bucks... so i didnt go the unifi route yet.. only cuz i found it there.. i got it to work in pfsense i set up 3 wifis but i having a trouble i dunno if its a firewall rule or not .. i can not get my home assistant to detect things like my cameras or wifi

                    so how i have it set up is

                    in my attic
                    i have pfsense routher ----> managed switch ----> poe switch (Vlan10) for 5 Poe Cameras
                    and that works

                    now from the
                    managed switched (mikotek)----> my linksys/cisco managed switch in another room...

                    cisco/switch i set up 2 Vlans
                    Vlan 10 - For Cameras
                    Vlan 20 - For IoT devices
                    i set up the tagged, trunk port from managed switch to linksys/cisco managed
                    and then i ran 2 cables into my unraid box where it hosts Home Assistant

                    and i set that all up

                    so Home assitant gets 3 ips
                    192.168.0.x for regular setup
                    192.168.10.x for the Cameras
                    192.168.20.x for the IoT

                    now i figured when all that was setup Home Assistant would see it all but it doesnt.. is there a fire wall rule or something or it cant be done... and you need to run a wire to like the camera switch and some how to the IoT

                    and for testing purposes i added fire wall rules on Camera Lan and Iot at the top that by passes the vpn on lan that they all **** stars so it opens up fully and home assistant still cant see the Iots Automaticllty or Cameras.. but it can if i manually add things by Ip address

                    what i doing wrong?

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                      comet424 @comet424
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                      forgot to add

                      managed switch(in attic) to to the Tplink For Wifi Vlan20 that part works

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                        Jarhead @comet424
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                        @comet424 Why are you giving HA 3 IP's?
                        You have vlans setup, use them. Put HA on the IoT vlan only. Then set rules to access anything it needs to on the other vlans.

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                          comet424 @Jarhead
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                          @jarhead

                          well orginally i had 1

                          192.168.0.x as Home Assistant runs as a VM under unraid....... and access my network

                          and i had swapped out this 4 port card from my pfsense as i ehard from others instead of vlans they used individual ports for HA

                          so then i set up Vlan Cameras and Vlan IoT

                          and i have rules set to be open but still nothing so if i change to 1 port for HA on IoT then Ha going to see all the ips on Iot Cameras and lan then automaticlly?

                          cuz i figured it should have detected so far but doesnt

                          so for now i by pass my rules and just opened it up
                          rules3.JPG rules2.JPG rules1.JPG

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                            Jarhead @comet424
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                            @comet424 You're only allowing TCP, change it to any,

                            and i have rules set to be open but still nothing

                            What does that mean? What have you been trying to do? If just pinging, then that wouldn't work since you've been blocking ping.

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                              comet424 @Jarhead
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                              @jarhead open it up as means
                              Source *
                              Port *
                              Destination *
                              Port *
                              Gateway *

                              means it has no restrictions above any of my other rules like port 123
                              is what i meant to say.. sorry my disylexia gets best of me...

                              so you can see Lan Camera Iot Devices have 0 restrictions now.. and still HA cant detect anything on the IoT or Cameras

                              also forgot i have a 3rd Location as the Attic is my Shop on my property..

                              but ya still unable to get HA to see the IoT Devices and Cameras just anything on LAN is the only thing it can detect

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                                comet424 @comet424
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                                like is there other rules i need to get the HA to see it.. how come it can see things on LAN but not Camera or IoT Devices.. do i need to add something under NAT?

                                oh i tried PING in terminal of HA

                                i can ping 192.168.0.1

                                but i cant ping
                                192.168.10.1
                                192.168.20.1

                                so i must still need something else right?

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                                  Jarhead @comet424
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                                  @comet424 Again, you're only allowing TCP, pings are, and are supposed to be, blocked by your rules.
                                  Change the protocol to IPv4*

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                                    comet424 @Jarhead
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                                    @jarhead oh ok my bad as with my dislexia i read it as just ip4 i had set..

                                    ill try that and see if it detects.. thanks for help so far i appreciate it

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                                      comet424 @comet424
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                                      so i can ping now
                                      192.168.10.1 and 192.168.20.1

                                      but i cant ping hostnames under the arp table..

                                      so i have a camera called "cam1" like 192.168.10.21 i can ping the ip not the name

                                      and HA still cant detect iot devices or cameras.. just whats on LAN network.. i made sure to change the TCP to *

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                        Where are you testing from? What DNS server is that using to resolve those hosts?

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                                          comet424 @stephenw10
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                                          @stephenw10 im testing from home assistant terminal, Home assistant Devices where it should pop up things

                                          i also cant ping them from my desktop pc

                                          the dns hosts are

                                          192.168.0.1 for Lan
                                          192.168.10.1 for cameras
                                          192.168.20.1 for iot devices
                                          nordvpn uses whatever dns .. from setting up per there setup..

                                          all i know

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                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                            Ok and those IPs are the pfSense interface addresses in those subnet? So both the HA host and your desktop are using pfSense for DNS?

                                            Are the hosts you're trying resolve all configured as static dhcp leases? Is the DNS resolved configured to resolve those?

                                            Steve

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