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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
      last edited by

      that was not him that was me..

      You can put as many untagged vlans on a interface as you want.. The point is NO SANE person would do it..  Might as well just use a freaking dumb switch if your going to do such nonsense.  Its the same as running multiple layer 3 on the same layer 2 which is just completely borked.  The rest of that was stating its not a cisco thing but a networking thing.. So you didn't even grasp what the point of that was…

      What exactly do you think you accomplished with this nonsense setup.. What you saved a switch port and tied up multiple router interfaces.  And now bridging these interfaces on your firewall... Just utter pointless setup - so yeah WRONG!!!

      You can also beer bong up your ass (butt chug).... Doesn't make it the "right" way to bong/drink a beer ;) heheheheh
      Google Butt chug ;)

      Glad your happy with your config - its utter garbage.. Anyone working in networking would look at say WTF was this idiot thinking ;)  But sure have fun with it.

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      • jahonixJ
        jahonix
        last edited by

        @johnpoz:

        You can also beer bong up your ass…. Doesn't make it the "right" way to bong a beer ;) heheheheh

        Glad your happy with your config - its utter garbage.. Anyone working in networking would look at say WTF was this idiot thinking ;)  But sure have fun with it.

        Didn't sleep well last night?

        @johnpoz:

        …The point is NO SANE person would do it...
        ... Just utter pointless setup - so yeah WRONG!!!

        Sorry, no.
        That's just your interpretation of something that doesn't make sense to you.
        As I just wrote, there are scenarios where something like this is actually used very successfully.

        In BlankMan's scenario it can work with severe limitations but is way better solved otherwise.
        No need to rage about it, it's BlankMan's install and BlankMan's routing speed which goes to hell.

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          BlankMan
          last edited by

          @johnpoz:

          that was not him that was me..

          You can put as many untagged vlans on a interface as you want.. The point is NO SANE person would do it..  Might as well just use a freaking dumb switch if your going to do such nonsense.  Its the same as running multiple layer 3 on the same layer 2 which is just completely borked.  The rest of that was stating its not a cisco thing but a networking thing.. So you didn't even grasp what the point of that was…

          What exactly do you think you accomplished with this nonsense setup.. What you saved a switch port and tied up multiple router interfaces.  And now bridging these interfaces on your firewall... Just utter pointless setup - so yeah WRONG!!!

          You can also beer bong up your ass (butt chug).... Doesn't make it the "right" way to bong/drink a beer ;) heheheheh
          Google Butt chug ;)

          Glad your happy with your config - its utter garbage.. Anyone working in networking would look at say WTF was this idiot thinking ;)  But sure have fun with it.

          Yeah sorry for the mix up. I was up till 4am getting this done as such I'm extremely tired.

          johnpoz, you disagree with what I did. Fine. Your posts like these are of no value. If you cannot be helpful, courteous, encouraging, i.e. nice, then I would prefer you not post on my threads.

          Just move on please…

          Dare to think and do outside the conventional box…

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            BlankMan
            last edited by

            I must say, our Network Architect here has been very supportive and provided encouragement for what I was trying to do. He rises to guru level.

            Quite the opposite of the negativity and flack I received here. Not one of you provided any suggestions config wise on how to set this up in pfSense. So called all knowledgeable Hero Members here could not put aside their personal preferences, their opinions, and address the question at hand, how to do this in pfSense on the router.

            Trunking multiple vlans on a single interface from switch to switch is done ad nauseum all over and seems to be acceptable to Hero Members. But my God, trunking multiple vlans on a single interface from a router to switch is verboten to Hero Members, we dare not talk about that…

            My NA explained to me that not doing layer 2 on routers is old school because routers are designed and are more efficient at layer 3. But doing layer 2 on routers is perfectly fine. Yes routers are not as efficient and if you need to extract every minute bit of performance you would not do layer 2 on routers.

            But I'm not there. My 6 Intel 82583V interface i3 2.4GHz 16GB DDR4-2133 250G mSata router will never be taxed by the additional layer 2 work it has to do.

            He also mentioned that if cost was no object you would never do layer 2 on routers. But being a public University and answerable to the tax payers compromises have to be made. When interfaces are needed on routers and money in not available you may have to do layer 2 vlans on routers. He personally wouldn't being a perfectionist but in our environment may have to.

            Put aside your personal preferences, your opinions, think outside your old school ways, think outside of the box and help people do what they ask.

            Not what you would do. What they ask.

            He also did mention that the Juniper routers that we currently use and make up our backbone are also built on FreeBSD. Just like pfSense. That was encouraging information and furthered my belief that I should be able to do this.

            And guess what? I was right. Can I be a Hero Member now too? I'll put on a better front here, especially to new members, by being more helpful and courteous.

            Dare to think and do outside the conventional box…

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              Hugovsky
              last edited by

              I must say that I usually don't feed the trolls but… If you know what and how to do it, why the hell are you asking for help?

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              • DerelictD
                Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                last edited by

                But my God, trunking multiple vlans on a single interface from a router to switch is verboten to Hero Members, we dare not talk about that…

                Nope. We all do exactly that. All over the place. Everywhere. Every day. No days off.

                If that is what you are trying to do, your descriptions do not match the project requirements.

                Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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                DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Yes tagging your vlans to isolate them when they have to run over the same wire is exactly the correct way to do it… The whole point of 802.1q or any of the other older protocols VTP, ISL, DTP...  MVRP, GRVP etc. etc.. etc..

                  There are whole standards and protocols on how to keep your layer 2 isolated from other layer 2 when they run over the same wire..

                  Thought you said you been doing this for 40 years?

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                  • DerelictD
                    Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                    last edited by

                    See. We all use VLAN tags to our Layer 2. That is what they are for.

                    What you do NOT see here is VLAN 10 on three different interfaces because that is just, well, horrible design, and, in that case, everything on VLAN10 will not be in the same broadcast domain so the stated goals I have (possibly incorrectly) deciphered will not work.

                    Tag VLAN 10 to your switching infrastructure ONCE. Use the switching infrastructure to create/propagate that broadcast domain to the switches that require it.

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                      BlankMan
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                      First I want to say thanks everyone for a more civil tone in your recent responses.

                      Hugovsky: Who are you referring to as trolls? Did you read this complete thread from the OP? Did you miss the part regarding me not knowing how to do it in pfSense? I know how to do it on Cisco switches but did not know how to do it in pfSense. After 3 days of trying every configuration I could think of I finally started to see the results I needed sometime between 00:00 and 03:00 today. Because there is no way to do it complete in pfSense's GUI. For one thing it requires a custom startup script for bridge configuration.

                      Derelict: Thanks, I didn't think I was doing something that outlandish. Yes that's all I was trying to accomplish, trunking a tagged VLAN to two other subnets/VLANs/segments that are untagged. In order for the Cisco managed switches with addresses on subnet 10 VLAN10 on subnet 20 VLAN20 and subnet 30 VLAN30 to be reachable for administration purpose. I apologize if I did not express that clearly enough.

                      johnpoz: Yes that's all I was trying to do was 1q tagging. Been doing computer mainframe management starting out in the IBM and DEC days for approaching 40 years. And all the ancillary things like database management before DBA's were a hot item. And networking Ethernet wise in the era of the thick coaxial backbone and thinnet days. Before the proliferation of routers and switches and CAT anything. Networking has never been my forte after that, I know enough to do what I need and learn it if I don't and more then ever be dangerous. I ask questions and I listen. Except to it can't be done. I will find a way.

                      Derelict: Once again that is your opinion. As with everything there are many ways to do things. I learned a long time ago my way is not the right way, it is only one way to do something. When you say it's bad and others say it's acceptable, who is right? (That's a rhetorical question.)

                      Dare to think and do outside the conventional box…

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                      • DerelictD
                        Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Bullshit. You are wrong. ONE layer 3 interface to VLAN 10. Period. It is up to your layer 2 to get where that needs to go. This is not opinion. This is fact.

                        if that is not the case then you actually have three different broadcast domains on three different layer 2s all tagged with vlan 10 and they cannot communicate with each other unless you do something retarded like bridge all those vlans on the different interfaces together at the firewall. Yes, "retarded."

                        Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                        A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                        DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
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                          BlankMan
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                          So much for civilities. That didn't last long…

                          Here is my working config. Is it really breaking any rules and not just opinions?

                          em0 is wan, em1 and em5 are unused.

                          em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=4209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:06
                                  hwaddr 00:e0:67:05:ab:06
                                  inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab06%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
                                  inet6 2602:306:3b6f:6460:2e0:67ff:fe05:ab06 prefixlen 64 autoconf
                                  inet 75.56.236.145 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 75.56.236.151
                                  nd6 options=23 <performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                                  status: active
                          em1: flags=8c02 <broadcast,oactive,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=4209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:07
                                  hwaddr 00:e0:67:05:ab:07
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect
                                  status: no carrier
                          em2: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=4209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:08
                                  hwaddr 00:e0:67:05:ab:08
                                  inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab08%em2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                  status: active
                          em3: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=5209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:09
                                  hwaddr 00:e0:67:05:ab:09
                                  inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab09%em3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
                                  inet 192.168.20.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.20.255
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                  status: active
                          em4: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=5209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:0a
                                  hwaddr 00:e0:67:05:ab:0a
                                  inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab0a%em4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
                                  inet 192.168.30.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.30.255
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                  status: active
                          em5: flags=8c02 <broadcast,oactive,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=4209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:0b
                                  hwaddr 00:e0:67:05:ab:0b
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect
                                  status: no carrier
                          lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                                  options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                                  inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
                                  inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: lo
                          enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: enc
                          pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33160
                                  groups: pflog
                          pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  groups: pfsync
                                  syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
                                  syncok: 1
                          em3.10: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:09
                                  inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab09%em3.10 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                  status: active
                                  vlan: 10 vlanpcp: 0 parent interface: em3
                                  groups: vlan
                          em4.10: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>ether 00:e0:67:05:ab:0a
                                  inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab0a%em4.10 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                                  status: active
                                  vlan: 10 vlanpcp: 0 parent interface: em4
                                  groups: vlan
                          bridge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  ether 02:ba:df:b4:35:00
                                  inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
                                  nd6 options=1 <performnud>groups: bridge
                                  id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
                                  maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
                                  root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
                                  member: em4.10 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 12 priority 128 path cost 20000
                                  member: em3.10 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 11 priority 128 path cost 20000
                                  member: em2 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 3 priority 128 path cost 2000000
                          ovpns1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                                  options=80000 <linkstate>inet6 fe80::2e0:67ff:fe05:ab06%ovpns1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xe
                                  inet 10.168.24.1 --> 10.168.24.2  netmask 0xffffff00
                                  nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: tun openvpn
                                  Opened by PID 18039</performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></performnud></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso></broadcast,oactive,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwfilter,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso></broadcast,oactive,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

                          Dare to think and do outside the conventional box…

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                          • DerelictD
                            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                            last edited by

                            Yeah. You had to bridge. That is just plain stupid compared to simply tagging that across the switching infrastructure.

                            But congratulations. You made a stupid design work.

                            Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                            A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                            DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                            Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                              BlankMan
                              last edited by

                              You are entitled to your opinion. Is everything in the world you don't agree with just plain stupid too?

                              Dare to think and do outside the conventional box…

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                              • DerelictD
                                Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                last edited by

                                No, just idiotic network design.

                                Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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