Need drop-in mode in a tagged VLAN on LAN

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I am deploying some Peplink balance 710/305 with speedfusion
My fault tolerance design calls for pass a vlan tag in drop-in mode between LAN and WAN1. I can assign a VLAN tag on WAN1. But in LAN - Network Settings, when I tried to add a VLAN, drop-in mode is not available. It seems to be only available to a non-tagged LAN.

Does anyone know a solution to this? I am running v7.1.2. I wonder if V8 beta 3 has this feature. It will be nice if Peplink is able to enable Drop-in mode for trunking in LAN and allows virtual IPs in each vlan.

vlan1
vlan11504×455 65.4 KB

vlan2
vlan21466×791 95.2 KB

vlan3
vlan31504×635 60.6 KB

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Drop-in is supported in Untagged LAN only. I move this thread to feature request for the team to take consideration.

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Thank you.
So for now, instead of using VLANs, I am going to have to stuff multiple IP subnets in a non-tagged LAN with multiple sub-interfaces defined on the other (non-Peplink) router to address my LAN Bypass fault tolerance scenarios.

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Hello friends! Will there be a solution for this?
it would be nice to be able to handle Drop-in on several interfaces

Greetings to all!

5

We insist on this again, pleeaaaaase, you are this :pinching_hand: close to getting the best of the best enterprise network transformation solution.

We are 100% available to test once it is ready.

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@Venn, we would like to hear for your used case. Please elaborate more the reason of using Drop-in mode in Tagged VLAN.

Thanks.

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I am also looking for this feature on my MAX BR1 Pro 5G, and it’s been over five years since this request was originally posted.

My use case is to dedicate a VLAN for a downstream firewall WAN interface while keeping the native LAN available for management and local devices.

Ideally, the configuration would look like this:

  • Native LAN: Management network (192.168.x.x)
  • VLAN 100: Drop-In Mode bridged to the cellular WAN
  • Downstream firewall connected to VLAN 100

This would allow the downstream firewall to receive the public IP transparently, without double NAT, while still allowing the Peplink to provide its WAN capabilities (cellular connectivity, SpeedFusion, health monitoring, etc.) and keeping the management network completely isolated from the transparent WAN bridge.

Currently, it appears that Drop-In Mode is only available on the untagged LAN, which forces the entire LAN into the bridge. Supporting Drop-In Mode on a specific VLAN would make deployments like this much cleaner and more flexible.

Has this feature been added in firmware 8.x or is it still on the roadmap?

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