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    XG-7100 1U VLAN setup

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      mmarco
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      Hi, I am fairly new to pfsense, and I have new XG-7100 1U device that I am trying to setup.

      I am experiencing problems with the vlan setup on the device. What I am trying is fairly simple:

      • create new vlan tag 10, and pfsense interface on it
      • assign address to interface
      • ping address from connected MikroTik router

      This is basic test setup:
      [XG-71001U]eth2 -- [MikroTikRB]-- [PC]

      MikroTik and PC are setup with VLAN-10 and they can ping each other. MikroTik is bridging VLAN-10 properly (tested by switching cables).

      These are the things I did so far:

      • Factory reset of XG-7100, assign ip address to it
      • Interfaces / Switch / VLANs (XG-7100 1U specific as I understand)
        • create new VLAN 10 and assign eth2 tagged to it
      • Interfaces / VLANs
        • create new VLAN Tag 10 on parent lagg0
      • Interfaces / Interface Assignments
        • Assign to OPT1 "VLAN 10 on lagg0"
      • Firewall / Rules / OPT1
        • add allow all for all rule (for testing)
      • Interfaces / OPT1 (lagg0.10)
        • assign static IP address to interface

      After these actions I would expect that I can ping the address (I have Mikrotik switch with IP on VLAN 10 and PC with VLAN 10 on the same VLAN and they can ping each other). Also I tried to swap cables and in all combinations everything seems to be working consistent except for XG-7100.

      As mentioned I am not very experienced with the pfSense , so I could have been missing something. Any suggestions what could it be?

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        mmarco
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        And to answer my own question, for some other poor soul that might search the forum for help. I forgot to add tagged switch ports 9 and 10 as described in documentation. So my tagged traffic was arriving to switch and staying on the switch never reaching the netgate core device.

        Once I added ports 9 and 10 tagged in vlan config, everything worked

        interface-vlan-config-to-work.png

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