Reply to Simple VLAN setup, why does it not work</mayby> on Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:18:00 GMT

cmb — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:18:00 GMT

It's not possible to configure VLANs with an unmanaged switch, unmanaged switches don't support 802.1Q. You'll have to get a managed switch and configure its VLANs accordingly to match the firewall (and don't use 1). Explained in depth on firewall and switch side in http://pfsense.org/book.

Reply to Simple VLAN setup, why does it not work</mayby> on Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:16:24 GMT

stephenw10 — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:16:24 GMT

Yes, generally you need to use a managed switch. It is possible using some combinations of NIC, driver and OS to have the client computer connect directly to the vlan traffic without using a switch to strip/add vlan tags. This may not be possible in your case and it will complicate things considerably. It would be better to get a suitable switch, the Netgear GS108T is widely used and cheap.

If you do get a switch you should not use tag '1' as it's often used internally by the switch as you quoted.
Also you should try to avoid having tagged and untagged traffic on the same pfSense interface, this can cause trouble.

Steve