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    • NeoDudeN Offline
      NeoDude
      last edited by

      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
            last edited by

            @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 Online
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
              last edited by

              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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                • J Offline
                  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 Online
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    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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                      • J Offline
                        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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                            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
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                              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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                              • johnpozJ Online
                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                ^ what??  Its a native vlan.. Laptop does not have to have any clue to what vlan its on.. Its native untagged vlan..

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                                • NeoDudeN Offline
                                  NeoDude
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                                  According to the listing back on the first page, his port 10 is not a member of the native VLAN (VLAN1), it is only a member of VLAN100, if this is a tagged port then the laptop won't see it.

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                                    hda
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                                    pfSense(to switch) vLAN(100);
                                    switch upload(to pfSense) Tagged(100) for port(AP) /Trunk;
                                    switch port(AP) Untagged;
                                    AP no vLAN.

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                                    • J Offline
                                      jehu
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                                      @hda:

                                      pfSense(to switch) vLAN(100);
                                      switch upload(to pfSense) Tagged(100) for port(AP) /Trunk;
                                      switch port(AP) Untagged;
                                      AP no vLAN.

                                      Sorry not sure I understood all that.
                                      Is there someone with any other ideas…maybe someone with the same switch?

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                                      • NeoDudeN Offline
                                        NeoDude
                                        last edited by

                                        Ah, I gotcha now. You have port 10 set as VLAN100 untagged and it's not working? Sorry about my ramblings then, lol. I'm not familiar with Cisco switch terminology but would there not be a PVID setting to also get changed for port 10 to tag traffic from the laptop as VLAN100? Or is that all taken care of when assigning the port?

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                                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                          When you assign the port it changes the pvid.

                                          Are we SURE!! that pfsense is connected to port 3 that you have set to trunk??

                                          Your saying all the other ports work, ie vlan 1 but not vlan 100..  Seems like to me if you were on some other port and not 3 that is exactly what would happen.

                                          Please verify that, and if in fact in 3 then lets sniff on pfsense lan interface.  You should see the tagged dhcp discover come in..

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                                          • J Offline
                                            jehu
                                            last edited by

                                            port 3 is connected to pfsense and trunk with vlan 100 allowed.
                                            port 10 is set as vlan 100, is access port…not trunk.
                                            if I plug into any other port which is set to vlan 1 default on the switch I get ip address and internet.
                                            port 10 which is vlan 100 cannot reach the dhcp server.

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