How see devices on FAMILY VLAN when on WORK VLAN
I've just purchased some Ubiquity Access Points and replaced an old Orbi set up.
I have VLANS successfully configured e.g. FAMILY, WORK, IOT and correctly have devices set up on new networks.
My understanding, is that if I want a device on WORK (192.168.88.x) to see a device on FAMILY (192.168.44.x), then I should just add a rule:
- [action] ALLOW
- [matching] TRAFFIC TO FAMILY
- [on] NETWORK WORK
- [schedule] ALWAYS
However, once this is set up, I can't ping a ip address on that IP range e.g. 192.168.88.10 [work] wants to access 192.168.44.10
I recognise that the devices are on different networks, but I thought that the rule would allow them to see each other?
Can anyone help with my amateur misunderstanding of how networks work?
Thanks
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OK - I've just realised I had a work VPN connected on my device. Turning this off solved the problem. I can now ping or share data with the devices on the other networks.
I presume, the better way to implement this, now I have everything set up with VLANS, is to put the whole WORK network on a VPN Client in Firewalla rather than just my laptop, then I will still have a locally assigned IP if I need to access other local network devices? -
@matt Policy Based Routing might be worth a look.
https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061592433-Firewalla-Policy-Content-Based-Routing
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Michael - I'm finally understanding how all this fits together!! Have learnt and achieved so much from Firewalla - My wife wouldn't agree it was a good thing (I haven't spoken much for the last 2 days 🤣). But this thing is brilliant. Thanks for the pointer to the tutorial. All working.
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