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    unable to ping new vlan interface IP address

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      pricemc1
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      Hi All,
      I'm new to pfSense and not much of a L3 guy so please forgive me if my question seems obvious, stupid, or long winded...

      I set up a pfSense appliance as a VM on my ESXi host. I am using it only for routing functionality between port groups on the ESXi host. The pfSense wan interface is on a standard vswitch untagged port group and connects to the physical network 192.168.1.xxx/24 network my home router is running. I configured another pfSense interface with no IP address assigned and attached it to a port group carrying all vlans (vlans 1-4094) on a distributed vswitch. I then set up several vlan sub-interfaces on the pfsense under that interface. I assigned IP addresses of 192.168.2-7.1/24 on each of the pfsense VLAN sub-interfaces. I then configured matching vlan-based port groups on the dvswitch for each of the VLANs being trunked in. I can ping the 192.168.xxx.1 addresses from everywhere I would expect to and everything on them works fine. When I put a VM on any of the tagged vlan dvswich port groups and give it an appropriate IP address I can ping anything on any of the networks and out to the internet. Seems like everything is working perfect so far...

      Next, I decided to add another VLAN interface on the pfSense for a 10.0.0.xxx/23 network. I assigned it an IP address of 10.0.01. When I do this I cannot ping the 10.0.0.1 IP address from anywhere on the network. When I added the 192.168/24 interfaces I could ping them as soon as the interface was enabled.

      Looking for some help in determining why I cannot seem to ping the 10.0.0.1 IP address from anywhere on the network?

      Thanks in advance.
      pricemc1

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        pricemc1
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        Solved my own problem. Forgot to put additional static routes on my home router for the additional networks.... Silly me...

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