Smoothwall, VLANS and Hyper-V

[markwilfan]

Hi All

 

Anybody else using smoothwall on hyper-v with VLANS willing to let us know how you are setup.

 

We were experiencing weird issues with dropped packets manifesting itself as page load problems sporadically, especially visible with HTTPS

 

Old setup

 

Hyper-V server hosting Smoothwall VM. 2 Virtual switches. 1 with WAN and 1 with a team of 2 NICs to LAN. Smoothwall had 5 Virtual NICS with 3 of them tagged with VLAN 10, 20, or 30 for our 3 byod networks connected to the LAN vSwitch, 1 connected to the LAN vSwitch but no VLAN tagging and 1 connected the the WAN vSwitch, in the Hyper-V VM settings. Inside Smoothwall these were just presented as 5 Interfaces. On the switch we have VLAN1 untagged and 10, 20, & 30 tagged on the 2 ports that connect to the team to the Hyper-V server. Each network worked as expected. However we were getting lots of dropped packets on the LAN and the sporadic page loads.

 

New setup as requested by SW support.

 

Hyper-V server hosting Smoothwall VM. 2 Virtual switches. 1 with WAN and 1 with a team of 2 NICs to LAN. Smoothwall now has 2 Virtual NICS, 1 connected to the LAN vSwitch but no VLAN tagging and 1 connected the the WAN vSwitch, in the Hyper-V VM settings. Inside Smoothwall I have created 4 VLAN interfaces using LAN as the parent. 1 LAN untagged, 1 VLAN10, 1 VLAN20, and 1 VLAN30. All have relevant IP addresses on the respective subnets. untagged LAN network all works fine but none of the VLANed ones do.

 

Could anybody share their config if they have similar setups.

 

Love you

[markwilfan]

Also to add sw guy has been very good. Last suggestion is to have a virtual switch for every vlan. We don't have enough physical nics to do this though

[markwilfan]

Any body at all using this setup? Just need a yes if you are. And to know if you vlan at the vnic level or sw level