Hello all
I’m not sure if what I am trying to do is possible but I have a small PC with four NIC ports as my IPFire box. One port for RED, two for ORANGE and one for GREEN.
I have setup a VLAN for IoT devices and I thought I could change my IPFire network mode from RED-ORANGE-GREEN to RED-ORANGE-BLUE-GREEN and set BLUE to be a VLAN on the GREEN NIC.
I have done this and when changing the network mode I only assigned an IP and no physical NIC. I selected ignore when asked if was sure.
GREEN is connected to an un-managed switch. The other systems that are configured for this VLAN as also connected to said switch. That switch then connects to a manged switch that feeds out to the rest of the network. VLAN has been tagged to the port that connects to the dumb switch as well as the port for one of my AP’s that I have setup to dish out a different SSID for IoT devices. Witch is basically what I’m trying to do is segregate IoT devices from my main LAN.
Once the system rebooted I selected BLUE as a VLAN on the current GREEN interface and rebooted.
I do not get any options for DHCP on the BLUE and I am unable to ping my BLUE IP on the IPFire box from machines that are all ready setup on the same VLAN of which there are two currently with static IP’s that can ping one another but not the IPFire box.
I what I am trying to do possible? Or am I doing this a dumb way.
If you require further information I happy to provided anything that I might have neglected to state that would be of use.
Thanks in advance