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1407990 2015-09-06 00:59:00 I have a D-Link switch (www.dlink.com) which I partitioned into 2 segments and one of those segments is between the RGW (a FritzBox) and the HONT (the normal Alcatel-Lucent unit that Chorus supplies); and it doesn't work.
If I put a standard 5-port dumb switch in its place - all is OK.

I have looked at the manual (www.dlink.com) and I have created a new VLAN for this but regardless of tagging or untagging, I cannot find a combination that works.

What trick am I missing here with regard to this partitioning/tagging/VLANs etc ??

Thanks
decibel (11645)
1407991 2015-09-06 01:58:00 Why would you want to do that, what are you trying to achieve? Even if you do have a valid use for that setup the switch doesn't need to do any tagging as the fritzbox is doing it. You just want to set the ports as a trunk. Alex B (15479)
1407992 2015-09-06 02:02:00 I want to mirror the traffic to a spare port and see exactly what is going on between the RGW and my ISP. decibel (11645)
1407993 2015-09-06 06:22:00 RGW? Your router, you mean?
Just curious, why are you wanting to see that? Are you suspecting them of some sort of remote administration etc?
Chilling_Silence (9)
1407994 2015-09-06 08:20:00 Residential Gateway/Router, same diff. Alex B (15479)
1407995 2015-09-06 10:31:00 Can honestly say I've never heard it called that before... Chilling_Silence (9)
1407996 2015-09-06 12:52:00 It's what Chorus refer to it as. www.chorus.co.nz Alex B (15479)
1407997 2015-09-07 00:03:00 The problem you're going to have is that if you are using VLAN 10 tagging on the WAN connection on your router, you won't also be able to have a VLAN ID, either tagged on untagged, on the switchports in between. inphinity (7274)
1407998 2015-09-07 01:34:00 You can with a trunk, can't you? Or you could just tag the port between ONT and switch and run the router untagged. Alex B (15479)
1407999 2015-09-07 10:12:00 You can with a trunk, can't you? Or you could just tag the port between ONT and switch and run the router untagged.

I will try that next weekend and see how it works. (I go to Carterton on Fridays)

Further to the reason I want to try this, my Snap ADSL connection in LHT only has ports 21 & 22 open of the first 1055 ports. (using www.grc.com to test this) but the Snap UFB in Carterton has a dozen or more; most of them for no apparent reason.
I accept that most RSPs have more administrative control for their CLNE in UFB connections than xDSL connections but they shouldn't all the ports I'm seeing.
decibel (11645)
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