General Questions

Hello.
I have tried for many hours now to connect to my monowall and wouldnt have tried this forum before i had exhausted every possibilities.

It is a Dell Optiplex 790 USFF (ultra small, so no room for extra nic) and i have tried both with MW 1.34 and 1.8.1 beta.
I install from cd, and it boots up all right. I have set ut a Netgear smart switch (GS108Tv2) with vlan, and configured the MW with the same tags like this:
Switch port 2:
vlan id: 1024 and 2048
MonoWall:
Lan: vlan 2048
Wan: vlan 1024

I have tried countless different setups in matching IP's, tagged and untagged ports, dhcp on/off, direct network connection (without switch), but i cant connect to it.

If anyone has any pointers on how i should get this to work would be greatly appreciated.

The way i want this to work is to have my modem connected to the switch on port 1 tagged to vlan 1024. Then i want to have the monowall connected on port 2 with both vlan 1024 and 2048 and all the rest of the ports on 2048. isnt this a setup that should work?
I am thinking of maby bying a usb NIC (like http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/connect/usb-hubs/dub-e100-high-speed-usb-2-fast-ethernet-adapter). would this work?

The setup you are trying sounds like it should work to me.  I'm not at all familiar with Netgear switches, I work in a Cisco environment, but instead of 1024 and 2048, try lower vlan id's like 10 and 20.  I know on some Cisco gear, they will not work with id's > 1005 even though the 802.1Q standard goes up to 4096.

The setup you are trying sounds like it should work to me.  I'm not at all familiar with Netgear switches, I work in a Cisco environment, but instead of 1024 and 2048, try lower vlan id's like 10 and 20.  I know on some Cisco gear, they will not work with id's > 1005 even though the 802.1Q standard goes up to 4096.

Just so there will be no misunderstanding the VLAN tag field has 4096 possible values from 0 to 4095.

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