[pfSense] how to make pfsense work with vlans in vmware

[Pim van Stam]

On 2 apr. 2012, at 06:42, Bill Yuan wrote:

> Hi All,
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> I have tried for the whole weekend to make the my pfsense work with vlans in vmware,  but still failed.
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> here is the network structure.
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> I am using a vmware workstation 8 on PC. and the LAN NIC is "Realtek 8169",
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> currently , on switch Port 1 2 8 are in vlan1
>                               Port 3 4 8 are in vlan2,
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>                Laptop 1 is using port 1 
>                Laptop 2 is using port 3
>                PC is using port 8 of the switch.
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> and I created two vlans in pfsense, that means in pfsense ,so there are em1_vlan1 and em1_vlan2 ,
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> so I want to know is it possible that the traffic from laptop1 will use em1_vlan1   and laptop2 will use em1_vlan2,
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> currently i am still don't know why my vlan setting doesn't work.
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> I am really need help on this , ths in advance.


I'm afraid you missed the concepts of vlan's. A vlan is a separated network (LAN). To separate the networks vlan tags are used in stead of different switches.
* a vlan has it's own IP range
* traffic between vlan's must be routed by a router.

Why do you want to use vlan's? For learning purposes?

If so:
vlan 0:
* create vlan0
* connect wifi access point to vlan 0 switch port
* AP at 192.168.0.2
* em1_vlan0 on pfsense at 192.168.0.1

vlan 1:
* laptop 1 at 192.168.1.4;
* define em1_vlan1 in pfsense with ip 192.168.1.1

vlan 2:
* laptop 2 at 192.168.2.5
* define em1_vlan2 in pfsense with ip 192.168.2.1

The pc must be in clan 1 or vlan2, both is not sensible
Wifi is in separate vlan (vlan0)

in pfsense:
* define vlan's
* configure the vlan interfaces (OPTx)
* define firewall rules, otherwise there will be no traffic at all
* define outbound NAT rules if all vlan's must be capable of access the WAN
* define the DHCP server settings for all van's

Does this help?

Regards, Pim

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