SG-2100 how to dedicate LAN port to IKEA Tradfri hub?
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Hi, my IKEA hub stops responding within 30 minutes of rebooting. It is connected directly to one of the four LAN ports on SG-2100.
The IKEA Tradfri hub works perfectly when connected directly to the cable modem and bypasses the firewall. That leads me to conclude that the firewall is “doing” something to that LAN port that makes hub stop responding. Arlo hub is connected to another LAN port and works fine.
So, is there a way to make PFSense act as a simple switch on that one LAN port and suspend any other smart activities completely?
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@forprocessing said in SG-2100 how to dedicate LAN port to IKEA Tradfri hub?:
my IKEA hub
Did it come with an Allen key?
What is it that the hub is trying to do when it fails? Is it trying to do something over the Internet that might be filtered? Have you tried running Packet Capture or Wireshark, to see what's happening?
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@jknott Ha, I got the joke, but not immediately. Need more coffee before the snow :-)
So, rather than running Wireshark (which I have not done before and will involve some learning) I would rather understand how to "dummy" down that LAN port and make it a simple switch so the hub works unimpeded. Is that possible to do on a Netgate appliance?
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Unless you've set up custom VLANs to isolate the ports, on a 2100 the LAN ports are a switch.
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@teamits And how do I stop everything else from affecting traffic on that port? I.e. can I disable pfblocker, Suricata, firewall, etc just for that one physical port?
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Before you can fix a problem, you have to know what the problem is. Saying it doesn't work doesn't tell us much. For pfsense to have any effect on this, that device must be sending stuff out to the Internet and expecting something back. What?
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@forprocessing To isolate the port you need to set up a VLAN to make it its own network. Then don't run Suricata on it. Not sure about pfBlocker as we have only used it for geo blocking not DNSBL.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/switch-overview.html
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/switch-vlan-configuration.htmlHowever if it was Suricata you would see the alert for that device's IP.
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As an update - thanks to everybody for the answers. Now I am reading on VLANs - useful knowledge for future tinkering. The culprit turned out to be IKEA Trader hub. I replaced it with Philips Hue hub and it works as it should. IKEA hub was also flawless for a couple of years, just decided to go crazy lately.
So problem solved, for now.
