FIrewalla on a VLAN

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Shawne Beeson

• July 19, 2020 01:30

So this is going to be a bit of a strange setup. I have a PFSENSE firewall/router. I have setup a VLAN (4) that is the network my kids phones and computers use. I want to install the firewalla blue on this VLAN. I can control the VLAN tag on the network switch (set the switch port to tag VLAN 4 plug the firewalla to this port). This way I can control the network and get alerts and what not on the kids network. What ports do I need to allow on the firewall to allow my iphone to manage and get alerts from the firewalla on VLAN 4 if my phone is on VLAN 1. I don't want any other communication between the two networks because I don't want the firewalla to do its thing on VLAN 1 (I have other things happening on this network that don't play nice with the firewalla)

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  Firewalla

  • July 19, 2020 05:04
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  The communications are based on end to end encrypted mailbox ... so you need not worry where your phone is at ... you can manage firewalla anywhere in the world. 

  Make sure the port for firewalla blue is an access port or an untagged port, the blue does not understand VLAN tags.

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  Shawne Beeson

  • July 20, 2020 01:31

  So I upstand that it does not understand VLAN tagging but my switch and router do, So it I assign VLAN 4 to the switch port so anything that is on the port is VLAN 4 and plug the firewalla on that port it will be on VLAN 4, and router will then route all the VLAN 4 traffic to it. I plan to allow the firewalla to be in DHCP mode. Will this config not work?

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  W PJ

  • March 23, 2021 22:21

  Hi Shawne,  I am trying to setup my network similar to yours.   Did you ever get this working with the Firewalla on a seperate VLAN where it only inspected the traffic on that vlan and not the others?  

  Thanks,

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