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BR500 Issues and Feedback.
Been looking forward to the BR500 release for some time now and finally just procured one through Powershift Eval.
First impressions:
DHCP Servers and VLAN setup through Insight got my blood ...
Hi Mike,
I'm thinking of buying one of these.
Do you happen to configure VLANs with port restrictions and / or do you know how easy / functional that is on this device?
Greetings,
Thorwald
VLANs are rather easy to setup but only in standalone mode at the moment. Insight kept having bugs where it wouldn't allow me to add/remove them very easy. It actually created a duplicate VLAN and then I couldn't get rid of it. Not quite sure what the deal was there.
In standalone mode, go to the "Advanced" tab and on the left Menu is a button for VLAN. Pretty easy. I'm running (4) of them without issue.
Thanks for your reply Mike!
However my question was not if it supported VLANs.
It was more if firewall rules between VLANs (with port restrictions) are easy to configure and work.
I just ask this specifically because I had some bad experiences with this in the past.
Give me an example and I will give it a shot and let you know :)
Hi Mike,
Thanks for being so awesome to help in this, because I could not find it in any documentation online so far!
These are just examples of tests you could do:
Test one:
You have one VLAN and another with an http server running on it. Now add a firewall rule that blocks all traffic.
Check if they indeed can't reach eachother. Then add another rule that only allows HTTP. Check if you can reach the HTTP server.
Test two:
Let's say between 2 VLANs you block all icmp traffic. Ping on clients on VLAN 1 to clients on VLAN 2 should fail from both sides.
Now you only block icmp from VLAN 2 (with pc 1) to VLAN 1 but not in reverse, this should mean the ping request starting from a client on VLAN 1 reaches a client on VLAN 2 (sniffable) but the reply doesn't come back through. Check if this is the case.
These are however just indications of tests. If you know other tests that are easier to check firewall rules with ports in your setup feel free to do so.
Thanks a lot !!!!
Thorwald
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