topic Re: VLAN in CHeckpoint 1590 in Spark Firewall (SMB)

VLAN in CHeckpoint 1590

Check07090 — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:52:31 GMT

Hi Team,

I have a checkpoint quantum spark 1590 locally managed firewall. I am setting up VLAN since number of devices has been approx. 500 and only one physical network is laid in the office.

What I understood from the documentation that multiple VLANs can be setup on same physical port lets say port 8. So I created a new VLAN over Port 8 and set the following

vlan id as 101

local network port as LAN 8

Assigned to as Separate Network

Ipv4 address as 192.168.10.1

Subnet as 255.255.255.0

DHCP disabled

Now I connected a laptop with LAN 8 with static IP as 192.168.10.2 with subnet mask as 255.255.255.0. But the network is not discoverable and no internet access is being showed. (Firewall has been set as Standard)

Can any one please guide me that can multiple VLANs be setup on single physical port ...? and what I am doing wrong here...

Thanks in advance 🙂

Re: VLAN in CHeckpoint 1590

PhoneBoy — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:21:26 GMT

Provide screenshots showing your precise configuration on Port 8.

Note if a port has multiple VLANs associated with it, it's considered a trunk port and therefore whatever plugs in must be VLAN aware.
For any VLANs you create, you must also create explicit access rules.

Re: VLAN in CHeckpoint 1590

Check07090 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:59:00 GMT

I have configured a port in checkpoint 1590 where default network 192.168.1.x is working ok on port 2.

Now I want to configure VLANs (192.168.10.x 192.168.20.x 192.168.30.x .....) on single port 8 so multiple networks can work simultaneously on one single physical port 8. Below the screen shot (attached) where I have configured VLAN over port 8 and assigned IP range to VLAN with 192.168.10.1/24 and connected a laptop with CAT 6 cable on port 8. But the laptop (192.168.10.2/24) is showing unidentified network. I have also set the policies for incoming as well as outgoing network. Please note that I do not have any other managed switch apart from firewall.

Please let me know what I am doing wrong here...

Re: VLAN in CHeckpoint 1590

PhoneBoy — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:54:44 GMT

If you assign a VLAN to a port, the device that is plugged into that port must be configured to accept VLAN tagged packets.
In other words, it's meant to be used with another switch configured with the same VLANs.
Windows machines (and likely other clients) can be set to utilize a specific VLAN tag, but it requires manual configuration.

It sounds like you just want LAN8 on a different network.
There is no need to configure a VLAN in this case, just assign the port to a different network:

Note that if you want multiple LAN ports on the same network, you will need to create a switch, define the network settings there, and then assign the relevant ports to it.