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- #ROUTER ON A STICK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE DRIVERS#
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Don't use the name 'Trunk' on things unless you want to cause confusion with Cisco VLAN Trunk mode or a SIP Trunk service or something else. Managing VLAN interfaces in the guest operating system is a bit of a pain and obfuscates it from the hypervisor management so I would not do that unless it is on a networking centric guest VM like PFSense or a similar firewall Virtual Machine.Īs for the hardware switch side, just set the port(s) connected to the host machine to allow all tagged VLANs (Cisco calls this Trunk Mode, others call it just 802.1Q general mode or something similar).
#ROUTER ON A STICK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE DRIVERS#
I believe Windows Server 2019 integrated VLAN tag management in the built in interface as long as the NIC drivers support it (at least I think I read that, I haven't used it myself).
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For Windows Server earlier than 2019 you have to have a special driver package to manage VLANs.
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If you do that, the VLAN tagging for that interface MUST be managed on the VM operating system, which in Linux or most virtual router/firewall software is built in. If you ever have a VM that needs more than like 4 interfaces/port groups/VLANs connected, I would just do the following procedure (port group using VLAN ID 4095 which means pass through all VLANs): Add a port group for each VLAN and add an interface to the Virtual Machine for each port group (VLAN) you want it to connect to. You need it to have 2 interfaces, WAN and LAN, at least. If you want to run a virtual firewall on VMWare ESXi, that's great. Don't have a VM with 2 or 3 network interfaces and do a VLAN tag on one interface and not on the others, etc. What I meant was if you are going to run a virtualization host server, do all the tagging on the vswitch if possible and do it consistently on all the VMs and all their interfaces.
#ROUTER ON A STICK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE PLUS#
Not sure if I understand " tag everything or tag nothing" because as far as I knew access ports are untagged while trunks are tagged, plus the un/tagging is done on a physical switch. I read that either physical switch should do VLAN tags or vSwitch not both. Port 5 is to be trunk and Port 6 for VLAN 11.
#ROUTER ON A STICK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE WINDOWS 10#
I'm trying to simulate router-on-a-stick configuration, the Router and Windows 10 are VM, ESXi and Switch are physical. Maybe you could explain what you are trying to do? Of course if the VMs' network interfaces are *not* in the same VLAN and port group then they will try to send to the gateway and fail if the gateway is not configured right either. That said, yeah, 2 VMs on the same physical host won't send traffic to the switch at all if they need to talk to each other, it will stay in the software switch, assuming everything is configured right. Everything is so much easier to keep track of. Make your IP octets match if you can VLAN10 is 192.168.10.0/24 or something like that. You're making new VLANs anyway, start with 10 or something. Especially don't use VLAN 1 and mix some things tagged and some things not tagged. It does special things on some switches and you never know until you have things that don't work and spend hours troubleshooting. Patterns in naming conventions help soooo much.ĭon't use VLAN1. Don't tag some and not tag some and keep the VLAN names sane and the port groups names sane and associated with their VLANs or purpose. When you're running VLANs and virtualization, tag everything or tag nothing. Firewall VM vNIC1 is vmnic0 (port 5, Trunk port on physical switch) Firewall vNIC2 is vmnic1 (port 6 on VLAN 11 in physical switch), this is a Sub-Interface and gateway of the Windows 10 VM Traffic from Port 6 will go to Port 5 on physical switch (Port 5 is trunk and is vmnic0 in ESXi) Traffic from Windows 10 VM will come to vSwitch11 (VLAN 11 vSwitch connected to vmnic1, port 6 on physical switch, port 6 will be on VLAN 11) The way I see it the traffic flowing this case is as follows:
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I have read that VLAN configurations must be done on either the physical switch or vSwitch, not both. All VLAN configurations will be on the physical switch. I'm looking to have Router-On-A-Stick configuration where the Router VM is running inside ESXi while the switch is physical. The OPNsense Firewall VM can do Sub-Interfaces, and VLAN tags. OPNsense Firewall VM running on ESXi Server (connected to vmnic1, port 6 on TP-Link) Windows 10 VM running on ESXi Server (connected to vmnic1, port 6 on TP-Link) Physical ESXi server (connected to port 5 on switch) I have modified the question so I can take it step by step, instead of doing it and throwing too much stuff here and troubleshooting