On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Victor, > I have similar setup up & running with a cisco 2950. > First question: > > 1) Did you reboot the box before trying to get addresses? yes, everytime something is changed in the box, gets restarted, even changing trunking config on the switch. > 2) Did you enable traffic (ie rules for dhcp are okay)? > if I connect from a laptop using an ethernet cable on each router/modem I can surf and even listen to shoutcast without any trouble and on pfsense WAN, OPT1, OPT2, OPT3, OPT4 are enabled using DHCP each, but they can't adquire an IP address. 3) Did you enable a DHCP server for each OPTX are you > interested in getting addresses from? > I did active DHCP server on every modem/router so i can check connectivity first before adding a static IP on every OPT. > 4) did you enable traffic to troubleshoot configuration > without using DHCP but pings and so on? > I'm not sure if I understand this...but If I use a static IP with every modem/router I can get to the outside world, I'm even sending this email from my laptop connected to OPT2 modem/router. If I ping my pfsense box, it answers, with static and dynamic IP addresses, I guess the trouble resides on the switch side. I wonder if you can share your cisco config...for trunking and adding vlans, please. > Giuseppe > > ----- Original Message ----- > Da : "Victor Padro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : [email protected] > Oggetto : [pfSense Support] VLAN Help > Data : Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:37:07 -0500 > > > Hello, > > > > Last week my old P3 Dell with 4 NICs including onboard (3 > > Load balanced & Failover WANs and LAN) was upgraded to a > > 6-NIC setup(5 WANs and 1 LAN) with pfsense 1.2, I was > > using 3 Realtek based NICs and the onboard 3com based, > > everything was ok, but when I turned it off and plugged > > two 3com(3C905C-TX) in it, just got so slow, the install > > process took me like 30 minutes, but it crashed when I was > > creating the partitions in my 30Gb HD, neither way, I > > change all the NICs to Realtek based ones, but the same > > issue occurred, again I replace all the NICs to 3com > > 3C905C model, same stuff, I even replace the HD, the > > CD-ROM, DIMMs, put a HD to CF Card adapter, but the same > > issues over and over, even if I just insert one > > NIC(Realtek, 3com, besides the onboard NIC) it didn't > > work. > > > > So I decided to use an old Cisco 1900 catalyst switch to > > connect the WANs using the VLANs feature, and another Dell > > P3 based with an onboard 3com and an Intel NIC to use for > > the VLANs. Well I am not a CCNA, neither way I tried to > > configure the VLANs using the menus provided by IOS on the > > switch, I added vlan2, vlan3, vlan4, vlan5 and vlan6 on > > the switch then assigned each vlan to port 1 thru port 5 > > statically, and configure the trunk port(A) in nonegotiate > > , on, off, desirable, auto, but none of the configs worked > > and haven't been able to assign IPs from DHCP on each > > router to each VLAN. > > > > Is there another config I need to set on the switch or the > > box so Pfsense can adquire IPs automatically? > > > > Pfconfig: > > > > VLANs > > > > Interfaces Assignment > > Interface VLAN tag > > Description > > fxp0 2 vlan2 > > LAN: xl0 > > fxp0 3 vlan3 > > fxp0 4 vlan4 > > > > WAN: VLAN 2 on Fxp0(vlan2) > > fxp0 5 > > vlan5 > > OPT1: VLAN 3 on Fxp0(vlan3) > > fxp0 6 vlan6 > > > > OPT2: VLAN 4 on Fxp0(vlan4) > > > > OPT3: > > VLAN 5 on Fxp0(vlan5) > > > > OPT4: > > VLAN 6 on Fxp0(vlan6) > > > > Cisco switch config is factory defaults except from the > > VLAN feature(Trunking mode and VLANS added & configured). > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > I will apreciate any of the Cisco VLANs based Pfsense > > boxes may respond. > > > > > > TIA, > > > > Victor. > > >
