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Title: VLAN Config
Post by: spetrillo on May 22, 2022, 05:19:06 am

Hello all,

IN the attached screenshot you will see my vlans configured over a 3 port LAG. The first 5 in the list were setup when I was building the firewall. The last one I just added this evening. What is confusing me is that the last one's device name is vlan01 where the others were named lagg0_ and the actual vlan number I wanted.

Why is this happening?

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Re: VLAN Config
Post by: lilsense on May 23, 2022, 01:40:16 pm

This is related to the OPNSense versions which since has been correct.

On another note, you want your LAG to always be in even numbers.

Title: Re: VLAN Config
Post by: spetrillo on May 23, 2022, 04:26:05 pm

So I should rename my LAG from 0 to say 2? Second what do you mean its been corrected? I am running 22.1.7_1 and I tried to create this new vlan under this revision.

Title: Re: VLAN Config
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on May 23, 2022, 04:36:50 pm

The naming of e.g. lagg0_vlan1 has been changed to a dynamically allocated number. This lead to a worse user experience in the UI because VLAN tags and parent interfaces could not be easily seen when managing VLANs.

This has been fixed by a UI improvement as far as I know.

The initial reason for the change was, that interface names are limited in length and as soon as QinQ comes into play are bound to break with a meaningful naming scheme like we had in the past.

So all newly created VLANs will simply be named vlanX. Don't worry, that's intentional and fine.