Guide to setting up VLANs for Printing with Firewall isolation
This guide if focused on establishing a basic VLAN to get people stared. for other initial device configurations, please refer elsewhere within the Peplink forum.
Step 1: Setup you unit within InControl2
Follow this guide on setting your equipment up in InControl2 as everthing I’ll take you through will be based on that
Step 2: Create your required VLANs within InControl2
Navigate to your organisations group and choose the drop down menu under network settings of “VLAN Networks”
Select the button “Add VLAN Network”
Enter your VLAN settings and tick ON “Inter-VLAN Routing” before pressing save
You should now see something like this
Step #3 Navigate to the Network settings on your device
You can do this either of two ways
- Remotely by using the secure InControl2 remote web admin
Navigate to your devices Dashboard and under the Settings menu choose “Remote Web Admin”
- Locally we going to the routers local IP address (remember that if you have configured the security from InCntrol2 you will need to get the password from the device page for InControl2)
In you browser, type the local IP address of your device such as https://###.###.###.### and login
On the Network Menu (this differs slightly between Models) navigate to the “Network Setting” under the Network menu, your browser should look something like this.
Check that your VLANs are inplace and the Inter-VLAN routing is enabled (other setting are for example only, change to match your requirements)
Step 4 Create you firewall rules
Navigate to the Firewall “Access Rules”, on a Balance router this will be in the “Network” menu, on a MAX router this will be in the “Advance” menu
To block you new Printer VLAN from accessing the Internet, create a “Outbound Firewall Rules” by selecting “Add Rule” and adding in the required details, like in this example, and select save
The screen should now look something like this
To restrict access out of your Printer VLAN to other VLANs, create a “Internal Network Firewall Rules” by “Add Rule” and adding in the required details, like in this example, and select save
The screen should now look something like this
Step 5 Assign VLANs to the devices ports
Navigate to the LAN Port Settings, it will look similar like this
Pick a port and change its “Port Type” from Trunk to Access, change the corresponding VLAN to yor Printer Network the press Save
The screen should now look something like this
Now press “Apply Changes” and then plug your printer into the port assigned for it.
Happy to Help,
Marcus