A few months ago, I decided to replace my aging Unifi system and stumbled upon home labs and open source firewalls. I never heard of either before this. This got me curious and I fell down the rabbit hole. Since then, I have learned a lot about networking and have put together a system including a pFsense firewall, TrueNAS storage, Aruba S2500 switch, Aruba AP-515 access point and an APC UPS connected with ethernet. Everything works perfect, except for one thing... All wired ethernet clients have a 30-45 second delay getting an IP address and internet connection. Once connected, it is perfectly fine. Fast and stable. At first I thought this may have been a pfSense thing, but now I don't think it is. Clients connecting to WIFI get an IP address and internet connection within 5 seconds, so I think the problem is in my switch configuration. I don't have the experience to find the issue (or fix it).
My system is as follows:
PfSense running on Supermicro S12SDV > 10gb trunk line > Aruba S2500 switch. DHCP servers, VLANs and switching all done with pFsense.
The switch is connected to an Aruba AP-515 access point via 2 link aggregated trunk lines. This is all working perfectly.
I have switch ports assigned to different VLANs and this is where I think I the problem may be. The ports are working correctly as far as assigning the correct VLAN address to the client, but it's extremely slow. First of all, I have absolutely no experience with command line configuration, so everything I did with the switch was done through the web interface. I could not figure out how to assign a port to a VLAN unless I created a VLAN in the switch. I created duplicated VLANs in the switch to match the VLANs in pFsense. I was then able to assign ports. Is it possible that the duplicate VLANs are what is causing the 30-45 second delay? If so, how can I assign ports to a VLAN, if it's not in the switch? Again, once a wired client gets an IP address and internet connection, everything is fine. This delay is getting annoying though. I would appreciate any suggestions.
My system is as follows:
PfSense running on Supermicro S12SDV > 10gb trunk line > Aruba S2500 switch. DHCP servers, VLANs and switching all done with pFsense.
The switch is connected to an Aruba AP-515 access point via 2 link aggregated trunk lines. This is all working perfectly.
I have switch ports assigned to different VLANs and this is where I think I the problem may be. The ports are working correctly as far as assigning the correct VLAN address to the client, but it's extremely slow. First of all, I have absolutely no experience with command line configuration, so everything I did with the switch was done through the web interface. I could not figure out how to assign a port to a VLAN unless I created a VLAN in the switch. I created duplicated VLANs in the switch to match the VLANs in pFsense. I was then able to assign ports. Is it possible that the duplicate VLANs are what is causing the 30-45 second delay? If so, how can I assign ports to a VLAN, if it's not in the switch? Again, once a wired client gets an IP address and internet connection, everything is fine. This delay is getting annoying though. I would appreciate any suggestions.
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