mbc0  Freshman Member

Thank you, I can see no need to do that as this switch is overkill for what I need, thank you again for your help, you have been amazing!

I cannot thank you enough! after years it is finally working as I intened :-) If you don't mind, I just have one last question? what do I do (if anything) with the LAG ports?

Hi, thank you!! I have only been using untagged and excluded never tried forbidden. Apologies if this is a dumb question but when you say uplink you mean to my xg firewall? I.e. sophos port 1 to port 16 on the switch in your example? Thank you again! Would love to get this to work.

Thank you for your reply, I mis-understood, I thought home forum was for home users not for home devices, sorry I just bought one of these for my home.

Hi, Thank you for your reply but from what I understand Link aggregation is different to wan aggregation?

My end-goal has changed slightly to ports 1-8,26 (192.168.0.*) tagged port 23 for uplink ports 9-16 (192.168.1.*) tagged port 24 for uplink ports 17-22 (standard dumb switch ports) Currently if I connect anything to ports 1-8 I get the correct IP but no internet (I think this is a sophos issue) If I connect anything to…

Many Many thanks for this incredibly detailed response! I really appreciate it! :-) Sorry it has taken me so long to reply but work has prevented me from attempting this. I am 90% there now I think, Sophos I believe may be my stumbling block at the moment as I have had some strange results which I am trying to understand.…