That port was nothing more than just the first or the last port on the switch duplicated to a cross-connected RJ-45 socket on the board, nothing more, and it was literally printed below it, the word "uplink". Back in the old times (15 years ago) some switches and hubs had an additional dedicated uplink port (regardless of tagging features) where port connection was crossed internally, so that people could use straight cables to connect switches to each other or to routers. What I just wrote is that there's no "dedicated" uplink port these days anymore. Of course I still haven't used one so I stand to be corrected. Just to define it by 'VLAN trunk' I mean a connection carrying traffic with multiple different VLAN tags such that when connected to a pfSense box each of those VLANs can appear as a separate interface. The 'uplink' port referred to in the instructions is specifically for VLANs. Neither of those seem particularly useful in common applications. You could possibly pass VLAN tagged traffic without stripping the tags. You could divide the switch in to separate groups of ports that formed, in effect, separate switches.Ģ. What would be the purpose of a switch that recognised VLAN tags but was unable use a trunk port?ġ. (Edit: These are quite a bit cheaper though) Even those really cheap Netgear switchs that require a Windows utility to control them. I have never seen a switch that had VLAN capability that couldn't do a VLAN 'trunk'. Unless the switch has a single fibre or 10Gig port for that purpose, these dont. There is no need for an uplink port such as you describe on a Gigabit switch since all ports are auto-MDX. I could think based on this, that it should work with pfSense too… What I'd like to do is connect two of these with a trunk cable and share VLANs between them, apparently that's possible with the "Smart" series but not with the "Easy Smart" series (that's why TL-SG2216 and not TL-SG1016DE, although I'm only using copper at the moment).īut what I'd really want to do also is to connect to pfSense via a dot1q trunk port and access VLANs directly from pfSense - do you think it would work?įound a review () where the author says he could do successful dot1q trunking between this and a Netgear GS108T. At $140 USD price with all the advanced features like dot1q VLAN according to the specs, seems very attractive. I'm definitely considering the TL-SG2216 model, which has 16 Gigabit ports, and 2 SFP slots. Anyone has experience with TP-Link's new Smart, and Easy Smart switch series?
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