RonAllen

Thanks for your reply Peter. So there is minimal risk for denying incoming traffic for this rule.

@PeterUK,Sorry for delay. I was able to resolve the problem by using a different laptop computer. Seems as if the first one I used had issues with VLAN's. Thanks for all your help with this issue.

@PeterUK,I will try these suggestions later today and let you know the results.

@Chris, Same result after changing trunk to disabled and vlan1 ports 7/8 to forbidden. The network adapter I am using on my PC allows me to specify the VLAN ID in the adapter configuration.

Ahhh, sorry. Here's the screenshot. Does my tagging look okay to you on the switch side? The other weird thing about this switch is that it keeps losing it's config after powering off/on. Maybe it's defective?

@PeterUK, unfortunately this switch does not have CLI.

@PeterUK, Thanks for your reply. Here's what i have done on the firewall side: * Created a Zone called VLAN10_ZONE with the VLAN10 as a member * On the VLAN config, I specified VLAN10_ZONE for the Zone parameter. * Created a Security Policy rule as follows: From: VLAN_ZONE to Zywall Source: Any Dest: Any The fact that…