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      Sleeps
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      Just tried creating the trunks and the following msg is appearing.

      Trunk member must Be in same Vlan and egress must be same each other. Error exists in entry 1.

      Trunk 1 = 1234 Trunk 2 = 5678)  Vlan 10 = port 2 and 3 Vlan 20 = 4 and 5

      Checked the ports.

      I'm totally lost now.

      Sleeps

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        Metu69salemi
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        Is it possible to have only one trunk?

        but try this: switchport#1: trunk with vlan 10, vlan 20
        switchport#2: access vlan 10
        switchport#3: access vlan 20

        Just don't setup more, test if it works, maybe your switch needs 2 trunk ports, 1st and 2nd half of interfaces

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          Sleeps
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          Natu69salemi

          Can only create 2 trunk ports and it's configured through Gui.  Can I start from scratch and send you
          screenshots.  Will pay for your time.  Let me know.

          Sleeps

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            Metu69salemi
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            Send me images, but if you're willing to pay something to someone, plz consider to donate to this project

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              Sleeps
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              Thanks for agreeing to do this. I will definitely donate some money to this project.

              Sleeps

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                Metu69salemi
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                  Sleeps
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                  Metu69salemi - Thanks for helping out with this.  I found some information about trunk groups.  http://www.brocade.com/support/Product_Manuals/ServerIron_SwitchRouterGuide/Trunking.4.2.html#78207 and it explains how to setup 2 or more trunk groups (Which you can do with the TL-SL2109 switch (Minimum 2 ports per Trunk)).  The 2 ports in a trunk group make a single logical link.  Therefore, all the ports in a trunk group must be connected to the same device at the other end.

                  My question is I have a Firebox with WAN, LAN and 4 OPT ports. (existing network connected to WAN, LAN and OPT1)  I have created 2 VLANS 10 and 20 on OPT2 on the Firebox.  Would it be possible to connect both cables/Trunks to OPT2 and OPT3 and bind OPT3 to OPT2 so that I will be able to use the VLANS

                  If this isn't possible what is the way forward?

                  Thanks in advance

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                    Metu69salemi
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                    @Sleeps

                    Only thing what bothers me is that I don't understand why trunk needs to be in group and why it requires to use more than one switchport.

                    I know what is the benefit of several trunking ports but i don't understand why this switch requires it(as an example procurve's dont require it but those support it), so how to add aironet access point with single interface to this switch.

                    edit: check lacp if you like to use several ports on pfsense

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                      keith_opswat
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                      @Metu69salemi:

                      @Keith: I didn't mention that vlan1 should be used, I only mentioned that default vlan might be "must to use"-list. As Procurves allow to change default vlan to someone else..

                      Gotcha… Like I said I've mainly worked with Cisco so I wasn't aware that you couldn't change it.

                      And like said above definitely donate money to PFSense. I just bought the Definitive Guide written by some of the PFSense creators & got it in 1.5 days off Amazon. It's a great way to donate some money because you get something extremely useful in return. When the official book for 2.0 comes out I'll also buy that. But the book for 1.2.3 is still extremely useful & well written

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                        Sleeps
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                        I thought I was buying an easy to configure switch.  It does say "Enterprise Networking Solution" on the box.  I've now lost a port and I'm surprised that a feature like that is available on an eight port switch.

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                          keith_opswat
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                          What do you mean you lost a port? Lost it to what?

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                            Sleeps
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                            @keith_opswat:

                            What do you mean you lost a port? Lost it to what?

                            I lost the port to a trunk port as this switch only allows a minimum of 2 trunks rather than 1 like the other smart switches.

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                              Sleeps
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                              Took a long time but finally got there and now its configured and working.  (Switch config was very confusing) especially the trunking section,which didn't need to be configured. Had to include an extra VLAN to act as the Trunk port.

                              Metu69salemi thanks for all your help and time.  Will now be making a donation to the project.

                              Sleeps

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                                Metu69salemi
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                                np, clad to hear that you got it.

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