Impossible to reach gateway using VLAN

Dave07186

Hello,
I am running pfSense and different OS on Virtualbox with Host-Only card with theses parameters:

IPv4 address: 192.168.56.1
IPv4 mask: 255.255.0.0

My LAN interface is 192.168.1.1/24. I can connect different OS.
I would like now to create a VLAN and migrate my Windows 7 OS to this VLAN.

I created the VLAN with the parameters:

Parent Interface: LAN 
VLAN Tag: 10
VLN Priority: 0
Name: VLAN1

I created the interface for this VLAN:

IPv4 Configuration Type: Static IPv4
IPv4 address: 192.168.10.1/24

I want to connect a Windows 7 computer to this VLAN. I set the following IP:

IP address: 192.168.10.10
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.10.1
Locally Administrated Address: 10 (to match with VLAN Tag).

I can't ping or reach my pfSense web interface. What I am not correctly configuring?
Should I define a second network card to configure the VLAN?
Thanks for your help.

johnpoz

@Dave07186 you understand that your 192.168.56.1/16 (255.255.0.0) overlaps with the 192.168.10.1/24 address right.. You can't do that..

Locally Administrated Address: 10 (to match with VLAN Tag).

That is not a vlan tag. If you want to actually set a tag, that would be this on your driver

If your setting locally admin address - that is your mac address.. So yeah setting that to 10 would bork it up so it couldn't talk to anything.

It would be a very special needs sort of setup where you would actually set a tag on a windows interface - normally end user devices are just in a vlan, that they really don't know anything about - this would be untagged.

If you want to put them in a specific vlan, you would set that up on your switching infrastructure or your VM networking infrastructure - the end device be it physical or virtual would really have no need to actually set tags on its network traffic.

Dave07186

@johnpoz I don't seem to have the option in Virtualbox. It appears that it's not supported with the default network card driver. I won't be using VLAN, so the issue is resolved. Thank you for your assistance.

johnpoz

@Dave07186 if you want to use vlans in your VM setup, you wouldn't actually set the tag on the virtual interface - you would set it up in the virtual switch or port group on the vswitch etc. I have not played with virtualbox in a really long time, but end devices almost never have need for actually doing the tag themselves.

I have to assume virtual box has a way to allow VMs to be on a vlan..