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    1 vlan over 2 switches

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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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      Did you change the PVID of the ports that you moved to new vlan... You would hope the switch would auto do that, but you might have to change do it by hand... Make sure whatever vlan you put a port in that is untagged, that you change the pvid of that port to the vlan you assign untagged.

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        michael178212
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        vlans setup

        Downstairs switch

        port 1 is tagged ( trunk between both switchs )
        Port 2 is tagged and goes to pfsense.
        Port 8 is untagged, goes to the wifi
        All other ports are left untagged

        Upstairs switch

        Port 1 is tagged ( trunk )
        Port 8 is untagged and goes to wifi
        Port 7 is untagged and is for unraid
        All other ports are left untagged

        Only ports that have a pvid are ports 8 on both switch which have are pvid 2 and port 7 of the upstairs switch which has a pvid of 20

        If this helps

        Downstairs switch

        Port 1 - 2 - 8 are in vlan2. Ports 1 and 2 are tagged, port 8 untagged and has pvid2

        Ports 1 and 2 are tagged and are in vlan20

        Upstairs switch

        Ports 1 and 8 are in vlan2 port 1 tagged and 8 untagged with 8 having pvid2

        Ports 1 and 7 are in vlan20 with port 1 being tagged and 7 untagged and has pvid20

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
          last edited by

          @michael178212 said in 1 vlan over 2 switches:

          if I'm upstairs and disconnect my phone from the wifi and then reconnect then I can't connect and dont get assigned an ip

          When you say can't connect - you mean you can not auth and connect to the wifi, or you actually connect to the wifi but just don't get an IP and end up with 169.254.x.x as your IP?

          If you can not actually auth and associate to the wifi, then no you wouldn't get an IP.

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            michael178212
            last edited by

            My phones tries to connect as it says connecting but just dosnt connect both passwords are the same and ssids along with same WPA encryption. After a few attempts it gives me a 'cant get ip' message and ask me to reboot router.

            Would this work.

            Make another vlan Id from the downstairs switch. Connect another ethernet cable from the wifi router to the switch and then just trunk my up to the other wifi router upstairs?

            So it'll go like this

            Downstairs switch

            Vlan2 ports 2 and 8, 2 being tagged and going into pfsense and 8 being untagged and going into wifi router with pvid2 ( as that's setup in pfsense )

            Make a new vlan so let's call this one vlan50
            Vlan50 has ports 7 and 1. 1 being trunk and tagged and 7 being tagged and goes into a spare port of the wifi router

            Upstairs switch

            Make a new vlan, vlan50

            Ports 1 and 8 in vlan50 with 1 be tagged ( trunk ) and 8 being untagged and going into wifi router ?

            Didnt think itll be this hard

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              michael178212
              last edited by

              Or am I just over complicating things and the actual setup of the vlans are correct and it can just be somthing to do with the wifi routers

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by

                @michael178212 said in 1 vlan over 2 switches:

                gives me a 'cant get ip' message and ask me to reboot router.

                When you do that look on pfsense - do you see a discover for IP or request... Pfsense can not hand out an IP if doesn't see the discover or request...

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                  michael178212
                  last edited by

                  In system logs under dhcp I'm getting dhcp requests and dhcpacks but have had a few of this messages

                  uid lease 10.10.10.103 for client a8:db:03:e4:a9:5a is duplicate on 10.10.10.0/24

                  Am I right in thinking that this is basically saying. You cant give that mac address ( my phones mac address ) that ip as it already has an ip ( static 10.10.10.10) ? If so then this would stop the ip from being released wont it or am I completely wrong lol?

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                    michael178212
                    last edited by

                    Now I'm home, I've looked at the logs again and I do have some dhcp discoverys, offers, requests and acks but still have that duplicate message. So what I ll try is disconnect the downstairs wifi router and see what the logs say.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @michael178212 said in 1 vlan over 2 switches:

                      a8:db:03:e4:a9:5a

                      Who owns this mac - what device is it? Look up shows its a Samsung device
                      https://hwaddress.com/oui-iab/A8-DB-03/

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                        michael178212
                        last edited by

                        Sorry yeah it's a samsung phone.. just tried how I said I would and with just one ( upstairs wifi router ) connected, my phone will connect to the wifi and on the right subnet but without internet. Tried changing dns, that didnt work so not a dns issue.

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