Maximum number of VLANs
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hello,
can you tell me, if I can manage (create, add group in VLAN…) VLANs with PFsense.
Moreover, what's the maximum number of VLANs that I can set up with PFsense?thx
ps: sorry if I posted this message in the wrong part of the forum.
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4094 different VLANs (2^12=4096, 0x000 and 0xFFF are forbidden) are possible for each interface.
Although VLAN1 is the default VLAN and should not be used as well.
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that's good to me, I only need 18VLANs ;D
How can I associate a VLAN with a group? Have I to specify the name of the VLAN to a group?
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group?
You create VLANs on an interface under "interfaces" –> "assign" --> "VLAN".
Everything else you configure on your switch. -
a group of users. I want to associate a VLANs to a group of users.
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You really have to be more verbose on what you want to do.
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sorry, my mistake
let me explain to you. I have a hub on which a lot of services are provide (SNMP, VLAN, DHCP…) but I want to have a solution to replace it if I have to. On this hub I configured many "communities". A community is a group of users. Each community is in a different VLAN. So 1 community = 1 VLAN
Therefore I asked you if i can link a group of users (like my community) with a VLAN
I hope, I clarified my problem.
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The pfSense essentially "sees" each VLAN as an interface.
For each interface on the pfSense you can create firewall rules.
You have to configure "group-associations" (aka the PVID and VLAN membership) on the switch.
It really depends on what switch you are using.Here is posted some screenshots to configure a FS726T.
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,14918.0.html -
ok,
I better understand how PFsense manges VLAN. It's very not similar compared with our architecture.
thank you for your answers, I appreciate that.
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I understood the association between VLANs and interfaces
but in our configuration we've got a multi-services controller (WLAN switch "colubris") which associates VLAN with community ( SSID, VLAN, RADIUS' attributes, DCHP relay, gateway)
Does PFsense manage this kind of "community"?
if you want to, I can send you a screenshot concerning a configuration of a community
