7100U connecting to a L2 switch
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Hello there,
i just purchased a NetGate 7100U and configured it in a way that every switch port is seperated by using VLANs.
After some time i stumbled across the documentation which mentions, that the switch ports on the 7100U do not support STP.
I need to connect from different ports on the 7100U to a ProCurve 1810G-24 switch, where i ve setup different vlan port groups and one tagged VLAN across specific ports.Will that become a problem and i run into the risk of creating loops or is that not the case, if every port on my 7100U is seperated and the switch on the 7100U practically behaves like it has 8 discrete ports.
Maybe it`s not a problem at all and i just misunderstood it at all. Would be grateful if someone can give me some clarification on this.
Thank you. :)
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A switching loop like that happens a layer 2 and if you have all the ports separated using VLANs you won't hit it.
Though you might consider a load-balance lagg, if that switch supports it, with multiple VLANs running over it instead.
Steve
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Thank you stephen. I guess we already talked over e-mail about this issue, i appreciate your answer here too though.
I could also add one of the 4 port 1Gbps PCIe NICs that are supported by the 7100U and not being limitied to load balancing laggs only, right?In any case and this is a little bit off-topic but bear with me for a second.
I am really interested about the future of pfsense+. Been a long timer user of the community edition and from a business perspective the move to pfsense+ was understandable and probably the right one.Of course i wish that the CE edition will still remain and receives regular updates but i guess that remains to be seen.
I am also looking forward to pfsense+ on VMs or 3rd party hardware and i would be very happy to see this come to fruition in 2021.Thanks again. :)
