lostsoul

I've not got specific experience with Ruckus, have you reconfigured the switch ports? Is VLAN 5 still untagged on the AP? Can you restore from a configuration backup?

These instructions look quite good: How Can I Configure my Vigor Router in "Bridged Mode" - Powered by Kayako Help Desk Software Maybe give it a hard reset and start from scratch if you haven't tried that.

Have you put the draytek in bridge mode?

As it's on hyper-v, can you grab a backup using the free version of veeam? Then if things go south with with the RAID, you have a reasonably quick way to get it back up and running.

You need to set up a dynamic DNS updater: http://chasechristian.com/blog/2013/02/palo-alto-networks-using-a-dynamic-public-ip-address/

I use a Vigor 130 with a Mikrotik router, it's a transparent bridge, so you should just be able to plug it into your routing device and be good to go. I also set up a NAT rule on my router so I could still access the web config page from my internal network when connected to the internet (useful to see modem stats). I'm very happy with the performance and reliability.

You say smoothwall was doing radius, was it just wireless clients authenticating against that? are you still using radius? Can you quickly set up a PSK on you wireless controller to rule that out?

Yes. What was the reasoning for removing the VLANS? You now have a massive flat network that contains all devices? Seems like a backward step to me. I'm assuming you've modified your dhcp scopes to reflect the new setup?

What happens if you give a laptop a static address on the network?

I think your best bet is to just add the zone internally and add the required DNS entries to make everything work. This is called split brain DNS, and is the normal way to accomplish what you want.

Can you not just add a firewall rule to allow the PCs access to the DMZ resource? Multi-homing PCs is not something I would do.

All working now. Turns out the integration services on the VMs needed an update.

Does anyone have any experience with this software? We have been evaluating it with a trial license, and I have come across a problem with a couple of our hyper-v hosts. The agent installs correctly and all connection tests pass, but when a back up starts it will just hang on the creating backup snapshot stage, the timer keeps counting up indefinitely. Any other jobs against the same server started subsequently just fail with a timeout message. We have other hyper-v hosts with the same configuration that work fine. Just can't work out what the problem is.

Sorry didn't read your post properly. Should be easy then, just add both VLANs tagged on the up links. Then use untagged ports for your sender/receiver and PCs on the other vlan. Any frames coming in on an untagged port will be associated with the assigned VLAN. Layer 3 shouldn't come into it, as I assume there is no reason for the traffic to pass between the vlans?

For your uplink, just add all the vlans as tagged on the port. Obviously you need to have the same VLANs tagged on the ports at both ends. I suspect the sender and receiver device will need to be connected to a un-tagged port on the vlan at both ends, as it's unlikely they will understand vlan tags. Not sure why you need two vlans for this?

Sorry for not updating sooner. The issue was that the gen 2 machine was using uefi, and the boot info is stored on the uefi firmware of the virtual machine. If you attach the disk to a new vm, it will fail to boot. This is fixable by using a rescue disk to rewrite the boot information to the new VM. After working that bit out, found another problem. Turns out this moodle vm had a long chain of snapshots. With the VM dead I had to redo the chain, and then merge the snapshots manually. After doing that the disk would still not boot, was getting kernel panic messages. In the end I manually rebuilt the server, all back up and running now:). Important lesson learnt, don't use hyper-v snapshots in production!

Thanks for the ideas. I was going to go with the new VM idea and attach existing disk, but this is a efi gen 2 vm, so unfortunately it's not that simple. Will pick it up in the morning, and let you know how I get on.

Hi people In real need of some help with this one. Had power outage last night, and now our moodle server vm wont boot. Have backup of all moodle data, but not the machine, want to avoid rebuilding if I can help it. All files seem to be in the correct locations. Could permissions be corrupt? Google has not revealed much, any ideas? Thanks Nathan

We also run the client directly off the network via GPO, been doing it for years and never had an issue.

I used to use Remote Desktop Connection Manager, but switched to mRemoteNG, as it supports RDP, SSH and more. Very good if you need to manage lots of switches.

Looks ok, but 250 devices is the absolute limit I would want on a single broadcast domain. If they expand in the future you may start to experience problems with network performance.

As @pantscat says, use the last address in the sub net for your switch. Use the same mask as the router and servers. Set the gateway of last resort as the ip of your router. If your switch doesn't know how to route the traffic, it will be sent to the gateway of last resort.

If it was me I would have management VLAN for the switches and a separate VLAN for servers. You already have those vlans defined on the switch, so why not use them?

your default vlan has an ip on the switch of 10.217.3.1 255.255.255.0. You say your dhcp server is on that vlan with an ip of 10.217.0.31. As far as your switch is concerned the DHCP helper is pointing to a network it doesn't know about. For it to work your dhcp server must be in the range 10.217.3.2 - 10.217.3.254, then adjust the helper settings accordingly.

/23 would do it. I would definitely try and get to grips with sub netting. It's not that difficult.