Migrating from netgear to sophos

Hi,

the XG use L3 for VLANs so you need an IP address for your physical connection. You cannot use VLAN 1 on an XG as that is the administrative VLAN.

You will probably need a DNAT business rule for your for your VPN terminations on the server.

Ian

Maybe this will be better if I break it up...

If I try to add a VLAN:
- It only allows me to add a VLAN on Physical Interface: Port2 and it doesn't allow me to choose VLAN ID 1. It also doesn't allow me to choose a gateway for it.

Shouldn't I be able to add a VLAN on something other than Port2?  Port2 doesn't even have anything connected to it?

How would I setup a VLAN with ID 22 and then create a DNS entry for it specifically?

Hi,

you cannot use VLAN ID 1 on an XG.

You will need an IP address assigned to port 2 before you can create a VLAN.

What do you mean create DNS entry for a VLAN ID?

Ian

I'm not trying to add VLAN on port 2.  I have my LAN connection going to port 1.

In any case, I'm just trying to setup a couple of VLANs.  My main network is 10.0.0.0/24 and I'd like the VLAN to be on the 10.0.22.0/24 subnet and have all things connected to the VLAN to use 10.0.22.4 as their DNS server.

Does that make sense?  I'm bad at describing this, so ...

Hi,

you cannot at this stage setup VLANs on a bridge.

Ian

What benefit do you see from having the XG in bridge mode?

Well, there we go... I need to put it in gateway mode first. Yeah, so there's my first problem.

Once I do that, I should be able to get a bit further

Do you know if it's possible to set up separate dns servers for each vlan?

Yes it is, you do that in the DHCP settings. You need to ensure that the XG DNS is being updated at the same time as your other DNS otherwise you will have web surfing issues.

Ian

I did a factory reset on the device and put it in gateway mode.  Question I have is... how do I verify that it is actually in gateway mode?

Actually there is no Gateway / bridge mode etc.

The Interfaces are the important part about this modes. 

If you have a Layer 2 Interface bridge, you are running in Bridge mode. 

If you have different Interfaces and work with Layer 3 routing, you are in Gateway mode.