VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.

[Herman]

Hi jahonix,

Port 1 of the HP switch is connected to the Virtual Hyper-V LAN port of the pfSense. I've configured port 1 as a static trunk port on the switch. Makes no difference. I read also a lot about trunking ports. Thank you for providing even more info. will be appreciated.

I have a strong feeling that I have to look in the Hyper-V switch corner, like Steve Scotter mentioned. But I am not sure. So I have to play around with that some more.

Regards,
Herman

[Herman]

Hi Steve-scotter,

Thanks for your reply. I was thinking in that direction as well. The pfSense LAN and WAN port are Hyper-V switches connected to a physical NIC on the Hyper-V (Server 2016) host. De server has two physical nic's on board en a 4 port Intel server NIC interface card. So in total the server has 6 physical nic's on board. In another post I've read some info about some power shell command regarding the Hyper-V nics.

Kind regards,
Herman

[Herman]

Hello,

This is the thread I found regarding some powershell commands were @bobtheninja talks about. Does this make sense?

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/81161/pfsense-hyper-v-vlans/3

Any help appreciated
Herman

[Herman]

Hi Folks,

I tried the following command. Somehow something went wrong.

This is the solution @bobtheninja provides. Any ideas?

Regards Herman

[johnpoz]

I just went over this recently... Let me dig up the thread..

But yes you have to set trunk mode with powershell - not sure why messing with mac addresses? That thread is 2 years old..

BRB
edit: here you go
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/139891/solve-hyperv-2012-vlans-support-hn0/8

I walked through how to do tagged vlans, with pictures ;)

[Herman]

Hi @johnpoz,

Wow. That is a lot of information. I have to dig in there. You were right. I messed up things. Messing around with the mac address was indeed no good idea!!! Now I have to wait till I am home because my whole config isn't accessible anymore :-(

I have to figure out the exact power shell command to do your trick. I have 2 nic's in de pfsense vm. A LAN and WAN. So I presume that I only have to alter the LAN vlan settings right?

For now I am not able to connect to the network anymore! :-( I hope I can reverse the settings i've made...

Cheerz Herman

[Herman]

Hello Johnpoz,

I am back in business again. Was able to reverse my mes sup with the MAC address.

Let me show you what i Have done. That is after the restore :-)

Above you see the 2 virtual network adapters connected to my pfSense. one of them is the LAN and the other would be the WAN. cannot see that here. I think that is the reason why @bobtheninja was using the MAC address part???

Next I executed the following command.

After that evrything stops working. When setting the mode back to Untagged everything is working again.

My HP 1810 switch is configured this way;

Port 1 on the switch that is connected to the pfSense LAN interface is configured as a Trunk port

Any suggestions?

Kind regards Herman

[Herman]

@herman said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

Hello Johnpoz,

I am back in business again. Was able to reverse my mes sup with the MAC address.

Let me show you what i Have done. That is after the restore :-)

Above you see the 2 virtual network adapters connected to my pfSense. one of them is the LAN and the other would be the WAN. cannot see that here. I think that is the reason why @bobtheninja was using the MAC address part???

Next I executed the following command.

After that evrything stops working. When setting the mode back to Untagged everything is working again.

My HP 1810 switch is configured this way;

Port 1 on the switch that is connected to the pfSense LAN interface is configured as a Trunk port

Any suggestions?

Kind regards Herman

Another screenshot how the interfaces are shown in pfSense;

[johnpoz]

You sure hp uses trunk in the same same with as cisco? WTF is static mode? Where are you tagging specific vlans?

[Pippin]

Yes, there is a difference between HP and Cisco:
https://networkingnerd.net/2011/02/02/when-is-a-trunk-not-a-trunk/

[johnpoz]

^ exactly!!! I thought they were different!

[Pippin]

On the old forum I posted a question few years ago and ran into this terminology problem myself, you where part of it too johnpoz , misunderstanding all around as same here, but cannot find the post...

[johnpoz]

I have not had to touch an HP switch for years and years - and to be honest have no desire to any time soon... But yeah I recall terminology is different that cisco ;)

[Herman]

@johnpoz said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

You sure hp uses trunk in the same same with as cisco? WTF is static mode? Where are you tagging specific vlans?

When I read the document Pipin provided HP uses tagged ports to carry multiple vlans.

Under mode there are the multiple option;

Gr. Herman

[Herman]

@pippin said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

On the old forum I posted a question few years ago and ran into this terminology problem myself, you where part of it too johnpoz , misunderstanding all around as same here, but cannot find the post...

Hi Pipin, I really hoping you will ... :-)

It seems that my HP 1810-24G is the pain in the ass here.

Gr. Herman

[Herman]

@johnpoz said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

I have not had to touch an HP switch for years and years - and to be honest have no desire to any time soon... But yeah I recall terminology is different that cisco ;)

I have the feeling you are not a really big fan of HP switches

You are tending more to Cisco? Is Unify also a good product?

gr. Herman

[johnpoz]

Not that not a fan of them... Just much more experience with Cisco, and the few times I have had to deal with HP.. Not impressed with them compared to the cisco use to working with.

For the price of unifi - you could get a pretty much full featured L3 switch from cisco small business line. The sg300 or sg350 line.. I just saw a sg350-28 on amazon for $179.. Its feature set far exceeds the same sort of price point from unifi.

[Grimson]

@herman said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

Those are LAGG modes, nothing to do with setting up VLANs.

[Herman]

@grimson said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

@herman said in VLAN's not working with pfSense and HP1810-24G Switch.:

Those are LAGG modes, nothing to do with setting up VLANs.

Thanks for your reply @Grimson .

Gr. Herman

[johnpoz]

The link pippin gave calls out what you need to do

"In HPvania, the terminology used for a port that carries multiple VLANs is a tagged port. On an HP switch, the individual ports are rarely configured directly. Instead, the VLAN itself is configured and the ports are added to the VLAN configuration. "