Guide to setting up VLANs for Printing with Firewall isolation

[mldowling]

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

InControl 2 Initial Setup Guide

Credit for this article goes to @mldowling of Rising Connection, Australia Peplink have hidden several of the menus until you add in equipment that is capable of the menu’s features. Pre-configuring of these can help tremendously with doing large project roll outs. The Hiding of the menus has been done to help simplify the on boarding process for new people and their devices. For those that need to do more advanced pre-deployment work, all of the features are available, though you need to d…

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