Expanding home Network using VLAN's

[dsduarte]

Hello Friends... I'm having a hard time to setup an expansion on my home network..
It's not an OPNSense issue but I think that here are the best chance to find someone with knowledge
Currently I have 3 vlans on my network: 10(LAN), 30 (guest) and 107 (iot).. they are working fine and the devices are connected to each other this way:

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On Horaco Switch the VLAN ports are configured this way:

- Ports 1 and 2 are configured as LAGG and the are connected with the OPNSense device;
- 802.1Q VLAN:
        - VLAN 10: Member on all ports, Tagged on LAGG (Trunk1), 4 and 6, Untagged on 3 and 6;
        - VLAN 30: Member on all ports, Tagged on all ports
        - VLAN 107: Member on all ports, Tagged on all ports
- 802.1Q PVID: All ports on PVID 10

On TP-Link TL-SG108E ports are this way:

- 802.1Q VLAN:
        - VLAN 10: Member on ports 1 to 7, Untagged on 1 to 7;
        - VLAN 30: Member on all ports, Tagged on all ports
        - VLAN 107: Member on all ports, Tagged on ports 1 to 7, Untagged on port 8
- 802.1Q PVID: Ports 1 to 9 PVID 10 and port 8 PVID 107

Until here, everething works fine... Now I wish to add another managed switch with a similar config of the TP-Link... it's a XikeStore... It's very like the Horaco Switch... I believe both are the same whitebranded... On this switch I need devices on VLAN 10 and other devices on VLAN 107... and possible in the future another AP...
I'm connecting Horaco and XikeStore by a SFP+/Fiber on the 10GB interface... I have configured the Xikestore switch like this:



- 802.1Q VLAN:
        - VLAN 10: Member on ports 2 to 6, Untagged on 2 to 6;
        - VLAN 30: Member on all ports, Tagged on all ports
        - VLAN 107: Member on all ports, Tagged on ports 2 to 6, Untagged on port 1
- 802.1Q PVID: Ports 2 to 6 PVID 10 and port 1 PVID 107

This XykeStore switch is configured with IP manual IP address, with an address of VLAN 10... I can ping its IP and access its web interface but when I plug a device on any port DCHP doesn't work at all... neither on port 1 (PVID 107) nor other ports (PVID 10)... On the TP-Link switch the devices connected works fine on any port...
I can't find what I'm missing here and I hope some good soul could help find what I'm doing wrong....

[dsduarte]

please... Can anyone help me?

[dsduarte]

well turns out, my config was correct and the reason for not to work as expected was totally my fault...
I was suspecious that this new chinese switch was not tagging correctly tha packets... to test my theory I decided to mirror the trank port on anther port an capture the traffick with a second ethernet card.. an USB/ethernet adapter... by preparing this setudp I connectecd the adapter on the switch and boom... works fine!!!
So now I got the final evidence that my laptop was the issue...
Turns out when I received the chinese switch I tested its VLAN function before connecting to my network and changed the VLAN tags on the adapter settings... I don't know why but the rollback to default config I thought that the original config was VLAN ID 1... When I deleted the 1 from VLAN ID option, started to work!

I leave this here to help others that might find this post googleing and also to inform and thank those who read this thread and spent some time thinking what could be wrong!!!
Thak you!!!