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      Balanga last edited by

      My pfSense box has just stopped working and I want to quickly put together a replacement while I figure what broke. I believe it's possible to set up pfSense on a system with just one NIC using VLANs. This is something I know nothing about so I'm hoping someone can point me at a step by step guide for setting up pfSense on such a system. I do have an intelligent switch which I understand is required to make this work.

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        NOYB last edited by

        @Balanga:

        My pfSense box has just stopped working and I want to quickly put together a replacement while I figure what broke. I believe it's possible to set up pfSense on a system with just one NIC using VLANs. This is something I know nothing about so I'm hoping someone can point me at a step by step guide for setting up pfSense on such a system. I do have an intelligent switch which I understand is required to make this work.

        Console option 1 to configure vlans.  I use VLAN 99 for WAN and physical interface for LAN.

        My config
        pfSense (DELL Inspiron 5100):
        WAN - bfe0_VLAN99
        LAN - bfe0

        pfSense Switch Port:
        PVID 1
        Member VLAN 1 untagged
        Member VLAN 99 tagged

        Description:
        ingress packets:
        untagged is tagged vlan 1 (PVID)
        tagged keeps its tag

        egress packets:
        vlan 1 untagged
        vlan 99 tagged

        ISP Switch Port:
        PVID 99
        Member VLAN 99 untagged

        Description:
        ingress packets:
        untagged is tagged vlan 99 (PVID)
        tagged keeps its tag

        egress packets:
        vlan 99 untagged

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          Balanga last edited by

          @NOYB:

          @Balanga:

          My pfSense box has just stopped working and I want to quickly put together a replacement while I figure what broke. I believe it's possible to set up pfSense on a system with just one NIC using VLANs. This is something I know nothing about so I'm hoping someone can point me at a step by step guide for setting up pfSense on such a system. I do have an intelligent switch which I understand is required to make this work.

          Console option 1 to configure vlans.  I use VLAN 99 for WAN and physical interface for LAN.

          My config
          pfSense (DELL Inspiron 5100):
          WAN - bfe0_VLAN99
          LAN - bfe0

          pfSense Switch Port:
          PVID 1
          Member VLAN 1 untagged
          Member VLAN 99 tagged

          Description:
          ingress packets:
          untagged is tagged vlan 1 (PVID)
          tagged keeps its tag

          egress packets:
          vlan 1 untagged
          vlan 99 tagged

          ISP Switch Port:
          PVID 99
          Member VLAN 99 untagged

          Description:
          ingress packets:
          untagged is tagged vlan 99 (PVID)
          tagged keeps its tag
           
          egress packets:
          vlan 99 untagged

          I wish I understood any of that…. Are these commands entered via telnet on the switch? And are these commands pretty much the same on all switches?

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            NOYB last edited by

            @Balanga:

            My pfSense box has just stopped working and I want to quickly put together a replacement while I figure what broke.

            Two and a half months latter… I'm a tortoise and even I would hate to see your idea of slowly.  LOL.

            @Balanga:

            I wish I understood any of that…. Are these commands entered via telnet on the switch? And are these commands pretty much the same on all switches?

            Those are not commands.  It is config outline.

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              Balanga last edited by

              @NOYB:

              @Balanga:

              My pfSense box has just stopped working and I want to quickly put together a replacement while I figure what broke.

              Two and a half months latter… I'm a tortoise and even I would hate to see your idea of slowly.  LOL.

              Actually, I set up pfSense on my previous box, after I found out that one of the SIMMs was faulty. I needed to install the i386 version of pfSense to make it work, but it has been working fine up to a few days ago when one of the NIC packed up.

              So, I'm back to finding a one NIC solution and setting up the VLAN is proving somewhat difficult, never having done it before.

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                smcclos last edited by

                Never thought to use VLAN tagging to segment the 1 NIC, I just bought an expresscard NIC and called it a day.

                So what does the physical topology look like?

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