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    Instaling pfsense on vmware esxi use as firewall between vlans

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      mahdi87_gh
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      Hi, I'm running a lab to test pfsense as a firewall between vlans.
      I have a esxi host connected with two cables to my cisco switch which the ports are trunk and encapsulation is dot1q. I have made an interface vlan on switch with ip 192.168.110.2 and vlan 110.
      In vcenter networking configuration I have made a portgroup with vlan id 110 and assigned this as lan of pfsense with ip address 192.168.110.1. In another machine(pc-1) I added a network with the same portgroup and it can ping pfsense but in my switch I can't ping it.

      another way that I tried is I assigned a portgroup with vlan id 4095 which is a trunk, then In pfsense I created a vlan 110 and set Lan to vmx0.110 . the result is the same. a machine with port-group 110 can ping it, but the switch can't.

      To test my network infrastructure I halted pfsense machine and changed my pc-1 ip address to 192.168.110.1 and now switch can ping it.

      I don't what's wrong. Please help

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        NogBadTheBad
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        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Category:VMware

        Andy

        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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          mahdi87_gh
          last edited by

          Problem was a switch in the line which didn't had the vlan

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