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    • johnpozJ Offline
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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      If you want a device in vlan 1 you would need to make a switch port in that vlan yes.  Unless your going to not use vlan 1?  Is quite common in the enterprise not to use the default vlan one.  You would change the management vlan to something else.  And not use it.. This is in the enterprise!!  In a home setup, its fine to use vlan 1.. I use it in my home setup.. I am not worried about someone plugging into a switch port that has not been configured and sitting in vlan 1 and that user getting access they shouldn't ;)

      So I don't see anything wrong with that.  Did you run the sho vlan command?

      its quite possible your vlans have not actually been created on the switch.. Do you see them listed in your run, when you do show run?

      So lets see your vlan config on pfsense.  Rules on your vlan, your dhcp server enabled on the vlan, etc.

      Just because you tell a trunk port to allow vlan X, doesn't mean vlan X actuallay exist in the switches database - if it doesn't then its not going to work.. Post the output of show vlan on your switch.

      Are you using vlans 1001-1005 ?  Out of the box vlans 1 through 1005 would be allowed on a trunk port.  No real reason to call out specifics.. Like that to be honest..
      The 1 thing when you set to dot1q, its quite possible your tagging vlan 1?  Which if you don't have setup in pfsense then that vlan would not work.. I would put a switch port in just vlan 1, ie just switchport mode access..  Does that work??  If vlan 1 is not working then remove the dot1q statement.  And vlan 1 from your trunk allow..  Off the top vlan 1 is the default vlan and would be untagged and on the trunk.  Your other vlans you add would be tagged by default and you wouldn't need that dot1q statement..

      We don't use vlan 1 at work, so been awhile since I played with how it functions with that statement.  I use it here on my home network, but its used on a interface that has no vlans on it.  I do tag it up trunk uplink to another switch, etc. And use it on some ports in my switch..  But I run two uplinks to pfsense.. 1 is my native lan network, and then another uplink is for another network and my vlans..

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      • J Offline
        jehu
        last edited by

        I've checked the logs on the pfsense firewall and this is what I get…I'm starting to believe the switch settings are good.

        /status_services.php: The command '/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -user dhcpd -group _dhcp -chroot /var/dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /var/run/dhcpd.pid em1 em1_vlan100' returned exit code '1', the output was 'Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.3.4 Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Config file: /etc/dhcpd.conf Database file: /var/db/dhcpd.leases PID file: /var/run/dhcpd.pid Wrote 29 leases to leases file. Listening on BPF/em1_vlan100/00:14:5e:77:61:9d/192.168.2.0/24 Sending on BPF/em1_vlan100/00:14:5e:77:61:9d/192.168.2.0/24 Listening on BPF/em1/00:14:5e:77:61:9d/192.168.1.0/24 Sending on BPF/em1/00:14:5e:77:61:9d/192.168.1.0/24 Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use Please make sure there is no other dhcp server running and that there's no entry for dhcp or bootp in /etc/inetd.conf. Also make sure you are not running HP JetAdmin software, which includes a bootp ser

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        • J Offline
          jehu
          last edited by

          pfsense vlan settings

          ![vlan100 interface.PNG](/public/imported_attachments/1/vlan100 interface.PNG)
          ![vlan100 interface.PNG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/vlan100 interface.PNG_thumb)
          ![vlan dhcp.PNG](/public/imported_attachments/1/vlan dhcp.PNG)
          ![vlan dhcp.PNG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/vlan dhcp.PNG_thumb)
          ![firewall rules.PNG](/public/imported_attachments/1/firewall rules.PNG)
          ![firewall rules.PNG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/firewall rules.PNG_thumb)
          ![interface pt-2.PNG](/public/imported_attachments/1/interface pt-2.PNG)
          ![interface pt-2.PNG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/interface pt-2.PNG_thumb)
          interface.PNG
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          • johnpozJ Offline
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            Yeah that looks fine.. Is that the only rule you have on the wifi vlan?

            So your saying your devices on this vlan 100 are not getting an IP from pfsense?

            Then yeah you have a problem with the switch config, or connectivity.  So is your lan, or vlan 1 working??  How are you accessing the pfsense gui?

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            • J Offline
              jehu
              last edited by

              @johnpoz:

              Yeah that looks fine.. Is that the only rule you have on the wifi vlan?

              So your saying your devices on this vlan 100 are not getting an IP from pfsense?

              Then yeah you have a problem with the switch config, or connectivity.  So is your lan, or vlan 1 working??  How are you accessing the pfsense gui?

              Lan is working fine on vlan 1…I have one vlan for now until I can get it working, vlan 100 wifi.
              If I plug into any ports on the switch it all works except for port 10 connected to vlan 100.
              On vlan 1 I have no problems getting ip from dhcp 192.168.1.x
              On vlan 100 I cannot get an ip from dhcp 192.168.2.x

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              • johnpozJ Offline
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by

                so going to ask for the 3 times..

                did you run the command show vlan on your switch??

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                • J Offline
                  jehu
                  last edited by

                  Sorry yes I did…see below

                  VLAN Name                            Status    Ports


                  1    default                          active    Gi1/0/1, Gi1/0/2, Gi1/0/4
                                                                  Gi1/0/5, Gi1/0/6, Gi1/0/7
                                                                  Gi1/0/8, Gi1/0/9, Gi1/0/11
                                                                  Gi1/0/12, Gi1/0/13, Gi1/0/14
                                                                  Gi1/0/15, Gi1/0/16, Gi1/0/17
                                                                  Gi1/0/18, Gi1/0/19, Gi1/0/20
                                                                  Gi1/0/21, Gi1/0/22, Gi1/0/23
                                                                  Gi1/0/24, Gi1/0/25, Gi1/0/26
                                                                  Gi1/0/27, Gi1/0/28
                  100  Wifi                            active    Gi1/0/10
                  1002 fddi-default                    act/unsup
                  1003 token-ring-default              act/unsup
                  1004 fddinet-default                  act/unsup
                  1005 trnet-default                    act/unsup

                  VLAN Type  SAID      MTU  Parent RingNo BridgeNo Stp  BrdgMode Trans1 Trans2


                  1    enet  100001    1500  -      -      -        -    -        0      0
                  100  enet  100100    1500  -      -      -        -    -        0      0
                  1002 fddi  101002    1500  -      -      -        -    -        0      0

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                  • NeoDudeN Offline
                    NeoDude
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                    Correct me if I'm wrong but you only appear to have VLAN100 tagged on one port?

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                    • J Offline
                      jehu
                      last edited by

                      @NeoDude:

                      Correct me if I'm wrong but you only appear to have VLAN100 tagged on one port?

                      Yes…do I need more ports?
                      I did try that and it didn't work

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                      • NeoDudeN Offline
                        NeoDude
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                        You need VLAN100 tagged on the port that connects to your WiFi AND the port that connects back to pfSense. VLAN1 should remain untagged but active on all ports. Your AP also needs to be VLAN aware, what one are you using?

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                          jehu
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                          @NeoDude:

                          You need VLAN100 tagged on the port that connects to your WiFi AND the port that connects back to pfSense. VLAN1 should remain untagged but active on all ports. Your AP also needs to be VLAN aware, what one are you using?

                          Sorry really green at this…vlan 100 to tagged to port 10 and port that connects to pfsense is port 3.
                          If you can help me with the commands I would appreciate it, see below, show run command...thx

                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/3
                          switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
                          switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,100,1001-1005
                          switchport mode trunk
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/4
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/5
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/6
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/7
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/8
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/9
                          !
                          interface GigabitEthernet1/0/10
                          switchport access vlan 100
                          switchport mode access

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                          • johnpozJ Offline
                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                            ok so port 10 is in vlan 100

                            Can you do a show interfaces trunk

                            Or how about
                            sho int switchport G1/0/3

                            That is the port you have in trunk mode to pfsense right..

                            I would remove this from your port 3
                            switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

                            conf t
                            int gi1/0/3
                            no switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

                            Then show the commands of the ones I gave above.

                            Then once you have a device that you connect to on port 10, we can worry about connecting a AP on another trunk port that does vlans, etc.

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                            • NeoDudeN Offline
                              NeoDude
                              last edited by

                              I wouldn't have a clue about commands, my switch has a Web GUI  8)

                              But if pfSense is on port 3 then that also needs tagged to VLAN100

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                                jehu
                                last edited by

                                @johnpoz:

                                ok so port 10 is in vlan 100

                                Can you do a show interfaces trunk

                                Or how about
                                sho int switchport G1/0/3

                                That is the port you have in trunk mode to pfsense right..SW#show interfaces trunk

                                Port        Mode            Encapsulation  Status        Native vlan
                                Gi1/0/3    on              802.1q        trunking      1

                                Port        Vlans allowed on trunk
                                Gi1/0/3    1,100,1001-1005

                                Port        Vlans allowed and active in management domain
                                Gi1/0/3    1,100

                                Port        Vlans in spanning tree forwarding state and not pruned
                                Gi1/0/3    1,100

                                Yes port 3 is trunk…see below

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                                • johnpozJ Offline
                                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                  We already went over what needs to be tagged where.. Yes completely agree with you

                                  Port to pfsense needs vlan 100 tagged.. And then any uplinks to any AP that would be doing vlan 100 on SSID also tagged, etc.

                                  But he can not seem to get vlan 100 to work..

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                                  • NeoDudeN Offline
                                    NeoDude
                                    last edited by

                                    Have we established that his AP is VLAN aware? and set up to use VLAN100?

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                                      jehu
                                      last edited by

                                      @NeoDude:

                                      Have we established that his AP is VLAN aware?

                                      AP is vlan aware it's a Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC-Pro AP…but if I plug my laptop in that port I can't get and ip

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                                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                        He is not doing that yet - he is just connecting a device to is vlan port 10.. And its not getting an IP from pfsense, or can not talk to pfsense.  If he can not get a simple access port to work.. Then what is the point of moving to AP?

                                        on your pfsense box can you do a ifconfig and post the output so we can see that your nic actually supports vlan tagging..

                                        example

                                        em2: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                                options=9b<rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,<strong>VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
                                                ether 00:50:56:00:00:03
                                                inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe00:3%em2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                                                inet 192.168.2.253 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255</rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,<strong></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>

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                                        • J Offline
                                          jehu
                                          last edited by

                                          here you go

                                          em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                                  options=5009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:14:5e:77:61:9c
                                                  inet6 fe80::214:5eff:fe77:619c%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
                                                  inet 24.23.x.x netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 24.239.15.255
                                                  nd6 options=23 <performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                                  status: active
                                          em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                                  options=5009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:14:5e:77:61:9d
                                                  inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
                                                  inet6 fe80::1:1%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                                  status: active
                                          pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33160
                                          pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
                                                  syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
                                                  syncok: 1
                                          enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
                                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                                                  options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                                                  inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                                                  inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
                                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>em1_vlan100: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                                  options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>ether 00:14:5e:77:61:9d
                                                  inet6 fe80::214:5eff:fe77:619d%em1_vlan100 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
                                                  inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
                                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                                  status: active
                                                  vlan: 100 vlanpcp: 0 parent interface: em1</full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></promisc></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

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                                          • NeoDudeN Offline
                                            NeoDude
                                            last edited by

                                            Your laptop won't work on port 10 because it's not a member of VLAN1 and I'm guessing the laptop isn't VLAN aware.

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