Mayak,

The only thing not clear to me is where to set the port type to "trunk". I 
don't see this option anywhere on the VLANS. Are you saying I literally assign 
the string "1,10,20" as the VLAN tag for port 4 in your example? 

----- Original Message -----
From: "mayak" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 4:36:13 AM
Subject: Re: [pfSense] pfsense <-> pfsense vlans and trunking without the aid 
of switches

hi john,

yes, your schema is possible:

- set individual ports to be members of their vlans -- on the right
side, make port 1 member of vlan 10, port 2 member vlan 20, and port 4
of type trunk. same concept on the left -- port 1 member vlan 10, port
member vlan 20, port 4 trunk.

the two pfsense connect together using port 4 on a rolled ethernet cable.

all of this accomplished on the `Interfaces -> Assign -> VLANs`

VLAN tag for port 4 would be 1,10,20 (1 is the administrative vlan)

cheers

m



On 12/30/2013 04:36 AM, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have a situation similar to what's shown here (http://imgur.com/b3Hbzd3).
> 
> I have two pfsense 2.1 boxes on my home network and two different sections of 
> the house connected by one cable. It's not possible to run another cable 
> without *great* effort.
> 
> Each of these pf boxes have quad-port nics which support VLANs. I have three 
> networks in play on the home network...a local lan, a DMZ, and then WAN 
> itself. What I was hoping to do is to create VLANs for each of these (one for 
> WAN traffic inbound, one for LAN traffic and one for the DMZ) and be able to 
> trunk each of these VLANs across that single cable (the placement of DMZ 
> boxes can vary at different times). Additionally, what I'd hoped to do is use 
> non-vlan capable switches on each side.
> 
> I have the Definitive Guide, but everything in it is related to using Pfsense 
> with an external switch. I'm not sure how to about doing this in pfsense 
> itself.
> 
> What I've done at the moment is created all three vlans and then added them 
> all to the same parent port (dm2) which is not assigned in any way within 
> pfsense. Is this enough to "trunk" these vlans? Would what remains simply to 
> be assigned three other physical ports on each card to the separate vlans, 
> and then dropping the appropriate switches off these ports?
> 
> Any help you can offer will be *greatly* appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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