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Hello, This is now resolved. Many thanks for everyone for replying to this thread. Kind Regards,

9 Posted 17 hours ago Hello All, Apologies for my opening post - I have my IP's mixed up. Please see updated IP's below. Example DHCP Gateway is 10.10.10.100 Next hop to SmoothWall VLAN interface IP is 10.10.10.100 255.255.254.0 Gateway is 10.20.10.200 - IP of Guest subnet on SonicWall Last hop to SonicWall IP is 10.20.10.200 255.255.254.0 No Gateway I can see the under Dashboard > External connections > Guest VLAN 100 1 of 1 gateways available and is green. I can connect to the Guest WIFI network and have an IP in the Guest WIFI range. I can ping the IP of the Guest Subnet on the SonicWall - 10.20.10.200 I cannot ping the VLAN Interface IP on the SmoothWall - 10.10.10.100 Thanks,

Hi, I'll PM the topology to you tomorrow if that is OK? Thanks.

@PaddyNewman Hi, Thanks for the reply and yes, we are using to filter only Guest snd BYOD. Thanks

Hello All, I have posted this before and have made progress. However, I still do not see what I expect in that my Guest device is connected but I have no internet connection. Setup as follows. DHCP Server scope providing IP addresses (Windows Server) SmoothWall VM SmoothWall to act as PNI Internet access via SonicWall On the SmoothWall VM Bridge Interface ( No IP assigned) with no interfaces added Guest NIC added tagged with VLAN 100 In the SmoothWall Web GUI Interface added as VLAN and linked to Guest Interface (I believe this is correct)? IP configured on the VLAN interface is the Gateway of the DHCP Server scope Gateway for the VLAN interface is the IP of the Guest subnet on the SonicWall Example DHCP Gateway is 10.10.10.100 Next hop to SmoothWall VLAN interface IP is 10.10.10.100 255.255.254.0 Gateway is 10.10.10.200 - IP of Guest subnet on SonicWall Last hop to SonicWall IP is 10.10.10.200 255.255.254.0 No Gateway I can see the under Dashboard > External connections > Guest VLAN 100 1 of 1 gateways available and is green. I can connect to the Guest WIFI network and have an IP in the Guest WIFI range. I can ping the IP of the Guest Subnet on the SonicWall - 10.10.10.200 I cannot ping the VLAN Interface IP on the SmoothWall - 10.10.10.100 I don't have internet access and I can't figure out why. Do I need to connect the VLAN interface on the SmoothWall to an Internal/External interface? If yes, how is this done as I cannot see a way to do this. Is there anything else I have missed on this? Any help/pointers gratefully appreciated. Many thanks,

Hello All, After a fairly lengthy conversation with various people, it seems all we need is an IN and OUT setup. I have done the following. Virtual Machine created with 3x NICS. 1x MGMT, 1x NIC IN and 1x NIC OUT Management NIC in place with IP for access. Bridge NIC in SmoothWall. NIC's IN and OUT attached to the Bridge NIC in SmoothWall. Apparently no IP needs to be set on the Bridge or the NIC IN and NIC OUT attached to Bridge NIC. My questions are: Do I need to add the Guest WIFI SSID's to the NIC IN on the SmoothWall virtual machine or the NIC OUT? Do I need to create additional VLAN's for the Guest WIFI SSID's and add these to the SmoothWall NIC in any way shape or form? Happy to answer any other questions as needed. Many thanks,

@CrootUK Hello and thanks replying. Yes, we will be using for web filtering before traffic hits the SonicWall. I assume that's what you mean by transparent filtering? I'll PM you if that's OK. In a nutshell we currently have Guest Vlan network > soon to be retired web filtering (cloud) > SonicWall. New setup will be Guest Vlan > SmoothWall > SonicWall. Many thanks

@Gongalong Makes my head hurt too at times. Will check with SmoothWall and hopefully someone else on here will see and reply. Many thanks.

@Gongalong We are setup the same way, no VLAN crossover so thats good. The GW for the Guests VLANs is currently on the SonicWall device. So the process currently is: IP received from the Guest DHCP scope. The GW for the Guest scope is on the SonicWall for access. This currently works as expected. Now the SmoothWall is in the mix, does the GW for the Guests network interface need to be on the SmoothWall and the SonicWall - the same GW on both devices? Thanks.

@Gongalong Thanks for the reply. The DHCP is interesting and something I will check. I presume the DHCP needs adding to the SmoothWall? A couple of questions. 1. We already have the Guest VLANs in place and working for some years. Are you suggesting new VLANs for the Guest WIFIs? 2. From your reply, I think we have done as you have suggested in that we have created 2x network interfaces on the SmoothWall VM with the appropriate VLAN on the network interface. My only doubt is what gateway should we use for the next hop. The GW as it stands currently is already in the SonicWall device. Do we need to add the GW so it is in the Guest network interface in the SmoothWall or add a new GW? @Davit2005 Thanks for the reply. The VLANs are WIFI only. We csn use a WiFi device and obtain an IP in the correct VLAN. I can see the MAC on the SonicWall albeit packet dropped. I will check the SmoothWall device too. The HyperVisor is VMware ESXi. I believe I am missing a hop or GW somewhere. Not sure where though. You are both right in that the SmoothWall support is terrible! Many thanks both.

Hello All, I am new to SmoothWall and we have a VM appliance with this installed currently. We have added the subnets to the SmoothWall appliance. We have added 2 Network ports along with the Management port. The SmoothWall sits between the external firewall and the LAN. We have a couple of Guest networks. These are DHCP'd etc. We have added 2x network ports to the SmoothWall VMware appliance so the Guest networks can use these. However, no matter what we try, we are having trouble setting this up and don't even know whether this is the right way to do this. In my head and on paper I have: NIC 1 to use the Guest 1 network - set in the VMware appliance with the VLAN. NIC 2 to use the Guest 2 network - set in the VMware appliance with the VLAN. SmoothWall have not been very helpful on this. Does anyone have a similar type of setup or any pointers for how this is to be setup? The traffic from the Guest network needs to go to the SmoothWall before this hits the firewall. Many Thanks.