I am considering buying a Pepwave Surf SOHO router. I’ve read a lot of information about the possibilities of this device but some things are not clear to me. Consider the following situation:
VLAN 1 (wired): NAS device: layer 2 isolation off, Inter-VLan routing on
VLAN 2 (wireless): Multiple client devices: layer 2 isolation on, Inter-VLan routing on
If I understand correctly the devices in VLAN 2 are unable to connect to eachother due to layer 2 isolation. But I wonder if the devices in VLAN 2 are able to connect to the NAS in VLAN 1?
Another question I have is the following. Suppose I have the following two VLANS:
VLAN 1, layer 2 isolation off, Inter-VLan routing off
VLAN 2, layer 2 isolation off, Inter-VLan routing on
Are devices in VLAN 1 able to connect to devices in VLAN 2. And the other way around, are devices in VLAN 2 able to connect to devices in VLAN 1?
Yes they can since inter vlan routing is a Layer 3 process.
No. VLAN 1 has inter vlan routing disabled so no L3 routing between vlans is possible for VLAN1.
If you want more control over routing between vlans, you should leave inter-vlan routing on for them all and then create internal firewall rules to block or allow traffic.
Ok, but from my knowledge the Pepwave SOHO Surf does not support internal firewall rules, only inbound and outbound to and from the internet, or am I incorrect?
I had to check though because the SOHO has a weird subset of features. But on the SOHO I checked (running fw 7.1.1) you can use inbound / outbound and internal firewall rules.
