@johnpoz So I checked the settings and the following are how the switch is set up and the packet capture I did when trying to connect to vlan 10 on port 5 of the switch while it was looking for an address assignment:
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It still isn't working.

@stephenw10
I dunno.... no clue, I rebuilt the 2 hyper-v adapters on the pfsense vm, the external and internal... and of course now it works. Oh well...

Thanks for responding to my question!!!

@stephenw10

Yes it is. And I disabled vmware virtual network local dhcp

ANd it works. Thank you for your patience ! You really helped me out on this, have a nice day/night

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@johnpoz haha yes I did use the wrong name I have a Netgear switch and a netgate router. Thanks for your suggestion. I will have to research some more ! I think my issue is my lack of research. I might have gotten into something that was beyond my understanding but I do think the pf software is quite a sophisticated piece to everything. Having a parameter firewall, VPN, Snort, Proxies etc it was definitely worth the purchase. I will have to learn more about networking haha. Cheers.

What is 192.168.100.7?

What IP are you pinging from?

Which adapter is that subnet on?

I recommend not using Net networks in VBox unless you have no choice, it makes everything much more complex.

Steve