Hey guys,
I've got a fun one for ya! I have been unable to figure out what I'm doing wrong and could really use some insight here...
I built a little rackmount router with a total of physical interfaces with the following configuration for the interfaces:
re0 - DHCP WAN
re1 - 192.168.15.1/24 - VoIP router dedicated port
bxe0 - Basement Switch (TL-SG3216 v1.0)
bxe1 - 2nd Floor Switch (TL-SG3216 v2.0)
The following have also been created:
bridge0 - comprising bxe0 and bxe1
VLAN1 - 192.168.1.1/24 (parent bxe0)
VLAN10 - 192.168.10.1/24 (parent bxe0)
My network is configured as follows:
|-----Router-----|
bxe0| |bxe1
TL-SG3216-B<---->TL-SG3216-2
Disregard the link between the two switches - for the moment, I have disconnected this connection as I haven't had a chance to set up STP.
So here's my problem...
I've been trying to get the VLANs to apply to both switches (bxe0 & bxe1) but I can't seem to pull it off. I've tried adding the VLANs into my bridge interface to see if that would work but everything becomes inaccessible and I have to gui into the router through my VoIP port to change everything back.
Everything works fine out of bxe0 - all VLANs correctly deploy DHCP and all clients can successfully connect.
Aside from that, the bxe1 side of the network is basically inaccessible. I can manually ping from the router to the managed IP address of the bxe1 connected TL-SG3216 switch - but I have no other connectivity.
How does one go about putting the same VLAN in place across multiple LAN interfaces in OPNsense? Does the VLAN need to be on a bridge or..?
I'm so confused by how the VLAN interface assignments work in opnsense - it just doesn't seem very intuitive to me from anything else I've ever worked with. :o