XG-7100 IX0 fiber to Unifi Switch as LAN connection
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I'm wondering if this maybe related:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/131725/xg-7100-sfp-module-1gbps/6
... as the switch I'm trying to connect to IIUC only supports 1gbps, and this article hints that it can't negotiate 10 down to 1?
--jason
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What is the output of
ifconfig -v ix0with the module inserted and patched to the switch?That is safe to run either in Diagnostics > Command prompt or on the ssh/console after entering the shell using menu option
8(enterexitto get back to the menu). -
Unfortunately my reply is marked as spam "post content was flagged as spam by Akismet.com".
But I've saved it here:
https://gist.github.com/jdillon/23967319d60bedf859cace4a50a41179
I did something as well, unsure what, that required me to reset everything to establish a connection to the netgate gateway.
Its does appear that the 10g direct-connect can't auto-negotiate down to 1g to the switch; The fiber module if I tell it to use 1g seems to make a connection though, so that is some progress.
I was hoping to use the direct connect adapters, but since I have to fiber stuff already, as I wasn't sure what would work, its not a big deal.
But the switch configuration for XG-7100 still confuses me a lot.
I have for now for additional testing setup ix0 as a separate sub-net for testing
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FTR I eventually got this working; google helped and I found:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-pfsense-configure-network-interface-as-a-bridge-network-switch/
and once I following this, I was able to get LAN and OPT1 to work as desired.
The only other wrinkle was I had to force the speed on the Unifi side on the SFP port to 1g else it would drop the connection every few seconds.
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Zero idea why you would need anything to do with a bridge to connect to a switch. LACP lagg maybe, but a bridge makes no sense.
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Well, its not 100% happy, now none of my vlans work to flow traffic from pfsense to the swtich, so It may still not be the correct solution.
I really just want to have ETH2-8 + OPT1 as "LAN"; where OPT1 is the main connection to my switch network via fiber module. Though I have 4 other vlans which also need to flow across the switch network; and I had that working with ETH2 connection to the switch.
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--jason
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@Derelict any suggestions for what I'm trying to do? Much appreciated if you can. Thx.
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Just forget about OPT1 being a member of the switch VLAN.
That XG-7100 unit has a built-in switch. Bridging that with OPT1 will only slow things down as you will no longer be using switch hardware but will be using a software/CPU bridge.
If you need OPT1 connected to a switch, connect it to a switch.
If you absolutely need those XG-7100 ports to be on the same broadcast domain as OPT1, I would disable the trunk links back to pfSense (no 9t,10t tagged ports on the built-in switch on that VLAN) and patch it to your external switch.
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Did you ever get this working??? I am in the same boat
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do you think this is enough for your part ?!
begin to describe your problem accurately, etiquette is very importantjust so you write in a nearly 1 year old thread.....
-What would you like to know?
-since there have been a lot of updates in 1 year, it may no longer be up to date what you would like to know++++++
@Derelict
Just forget about OPT1 being a member of the switch VLAN.That XG-7100 unit has a built-in switch. Bridging that with OPT1 will only slow things down as you will no longer be using switch hardware but will be using a software/CPU bridge.
If you need OPT1 connected to a switch, connect it to a switch.
If you absolutely need those XG-7100 ports to be on the same broadcast domain as OPT1, I would disable the trunk links back to pfSense (no 9t,10t tagged ports on the built-in switch on that VLAN) and patch it to your external switch.
