So I have run into a strange issue that I have not being able to figure out. I have been slowly changing over my network from using wifi router to use a pfsense router. I have been slowly configuring all the VLANs I use and have been testing them out to ensure that the L3 switch (a Brocade ICX 6610) is performing all the inter-VLAN routing.
I have 2 VLANs setup simply for the pfsense system, VLAN 99, which is configured as the WAN VLAN and VLAN 98, which is effectively the transit VLAN, on port 1/2/6 set with tagged with VLAN 98, and VLAN 99. I have my pfsense system using IP 192.168.98.2/24 on the VLAN 98, and DHCP for VLAN 99, and a virtual routing interface on the switch of 192.168.98.1/24 (I should probably just make these a /30, since they will be the only 2 IP addresses used).
I have no problem reaching the pfsense from my other VLANs. I have configured static routes on the pfsense system to reach back to the other VLANs through 192.168.98.1 and everything communicates fine. The problem is that once I move the network cable that comes from the cable modem and currently goes into the WAN port on my wifi router over to port 1/1/24 on the brocade which is configured for untagged VLAN 99, I do not ever get an IP address on the pfsense system for the WAN side.
Could the cable modem be effectively locked based on MAC address of my previous router that connected to it? I don't know why they would do something like that since anytime someone replaces their own router they would then have issues (like I am) connecting. Is there something I might have missed?
I have 2 VLANs setup simply for the pfsense system, VLAN 99, which is configured as the WAN VLAN and VLAN 98, which is effectively the transit VLAN, on port 1/2/6 set with tagged with VLAN 98, and VLAN 99. I have my pfsense system using IP 192.168.98.2/24 on the VLAN 98, and DHCP for VLAN 99, and a virtual routing interface on the switch of 192.168.98.1/24 (I should probably just make these a /30, since they will be the only 2 IP addresses used).
I have no problem reaching the pfsense from my other VLANs. I have configured static routes on the pfsense system to reach back to the other VLANs through 192.168.98.1 and everything communicates fine. The problem is that once I move the network cable that comes from the cable modem and currently goes into the WAN port on my wifi router over to port 1/1/24 on the brocade which is configured for untagged VLAN 99, I do not ever get an IP address on the pfsense system for the WAN side.
Could the cable modem be effectively locked based on MAC address of my previous router that connected to it? I don't know why they would do something like that since anytime someone replaces their own router they would then have issues (like I am) connecting. Is there something I might have missed?