Printer on VLAN's

[danwillis]

Hi,

Is it possible to have a printer on my LAN side of my network and have multiple VLANs access it. I can enable inter VLAN routing but that opens up all devices on my LAN to the VLAN’s, which I want to avoid. I am using a peplink balance one.

LAN: 192.168.1.1 - printer 192.168.1.248
VLAN10: 192.168.10.1
VLAN11: 192.168.11.1

[mldowling]

Hello @danwillis,
You may like to look at this previous thread, there are also many other examples here in the forum, just search on the topics of VLAN and Firewall.

Sharing printer across VLANs

Hello @ReeXNeeX, Have you created your firewall rules to allow network traffic between the VLANs? [image] Based on our past experiences with the Peplink Team, you are best to enable Inter VLAN routing and then using these “Internal Network Firewall Rules” to bock the unwanted traffic between the VLANs, you can create firsly the rules for what you do want to allow and then a block rule for the rest. You can search here in the forum for “firewall rules”, there is lots of good health discussion…

The Peplink community works with a lot Balance ONE routers and with the higher end Balance routers (pluss the other gateways that Peplink make like MAX series). Enabling inter VLAN routing and setting up IP firewalls between the VLANs is the best way with Peplink, you will find the way Peplink do this better than the traditional routing tables (took us a while to come round to this way, though happy we have).

Happy to Help,
Marcus

[danwillis]

Hi,

I need a little more help. How would I put the rule in?

My LAN is 192.168.1.0
VLAN 192.168.10.0

My printer IP is 192.168.1.248.

I want to open up just the printer to VLAN10 nothing else. Im not that great with firewall rules.

Cheers

[mldowling]

Hello @danwillis,
You can certainly get it working and others with only basic skills have been able to do this before you, it is just a matter of going one step at a time?

Also where are you based, the community here has local Peplink Partners all around the world, your local Peplink Partner may be able help too, myself I’m based in Australia.

Have a look through this five step guide.

Guide to setting up VLANs for Printing with Firewall isolation

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 https://forum.peplink.com/t/incontrol-2-initial-setup-guide/8483?u=mldowling Step 2: Create your required VLANs …

That is it, just remember to select “Apply Changes”
Happy to Help,
Marcus