VLAN Tagging Required on Red, How?

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I have an FTTP connection through CityFibre. To get access to the internet you need to tag your DHCP connection with VLAN ID 911.

I cannot for love nor money figure out how to do this with IPfire. Any idea how to tag my Red/WAN connection to get access to the internet?

I have an IPoE (DHCP) connection as opposed to PPoE. Therefore I just need to tag my Red connection with an id of 911 and it should work. But again, how do I do this?

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Install IPFire as usual with DHCP on red, then go to Network → Zone Configuration in the WebUI and configure the vlan on red.

vlan_on_red

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I tried that before posting this, it still doesn’t work with no connection to the internet.

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After you did that change on the zone configuration, did you reboot?

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Yes, and then it just was stuck on “connecting” the whole time. No change.

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What Arne described is the correct way to configure this. So this is supported.

If it is not working there could be a couple of other factors:

  • (We haven’t seen this in ages, but) Does your hardware support VLANs?
  • Are you sure you need to use DHCP and not PPPoE? I have not seen an ISP that is using this kind of configuration in the wild.

You can check with “tcpdump -i red0 -nn” on the console what packets are passing the Interface. If you don’t see anything coming back from the ISP side, you might have an incorrect VLAN ID?

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Ok, first time caller :slight_smile:
I read this as I had the same issue, sits connecting … and the vlan 911 sorta gave it away ( Yayzi ISP ??? ), anyway I moved from OPNSense to IPFire due to some weird vlan on wan network bug in FreeBSD ( don’t ask - I gave up ).
So rebuilt with IPFire and still had the no IP situation. Saw this article but as the op said - no joy.
Resolved.
Connect from ONT → Red Nic Port
Set Red NIC to BRIDGE, change from native to vlan, set to 911 - jobs a good un…
Hope that helps.