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    Not sure if my switch or pfsense

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    • W Offline
      W4RH34D
      last edited by

      Howdy

      We have a weird situation where we have a lot of land between switches.  We have a very long fibre run from switch a to switch b.

      What I'd like to do is subnet the remote location by making a vlan in switch b that takes the SFP from switch A and forwards it to one port that would then go into pfsense.  so switch A sfp port 8 goes to swich b sfp port 8 then vlan segments that port and forwards it to one port that is connected to pfsense.

      I have set it up this way and currently for some reason only UDP traffic is getting through and only from one machine.

      Am I crazy to think this would work?

      I have ordered a small switch to do this job in case I can't get this "smart" switch to do this.

      [switch A SFP port 8] –----------------[switch B SFP port 8(vlan port 8 sfp and port 16 ethernet)port 16]–----[pfsense]

      Did you really check your cables?

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      • W Offline
        W4RH34D
        last edited by

        Pretty sure it's the switch.

        I did a firmware update that completely broke it.  Rolled back and I guess I'll play the waiting game instead of pulling every lever in the switch and pfsense to try to get it to work.  LOL

        Did you really check your cables?

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        • W Offline
          W4RH34D
          last edited by

          The small sfp switch came in.

          Works great!

          /thread

          Did you really check your cables?

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