Comprehending Netgate 1100 – Ports and VLAN’s

by Oct 14, 2025IT Tips0 comments

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This image helps me visualise what is happening when VLANs are configured. Members map to the physical port numbers as follows.

Switch Port numbers are listed under Interfaces / Switch / Ports

0 for the Marvell 6000 Switch Chip. Every VLAN other than 1 needs to have it as a tagged member (the 0t, xxx in the image above)

3 is the WAN port, 2 is the LAN port, 1 is the OPT port on the Netgate 1100

The members entries can be any of the above Port numbers (e.g. 0,1,2,3)

The t stands for tagged and is set when adding or editing a VLAN (i.e. traffic coming out the member port will be tagged with the appropriate VLAN ID when exiting the port). When you see a member without a t then that is the default or native VLAN so traffic on that VLAN will NOT be tagged as it exits the port (if I understand it correctly)

After you create your VLANs and add the member ports to each VLAN with appropriate tagged / non-tagged settings

You need to associate each VLAN with an Interface to enable routing

WAN (wan) -> mvneta0.4090 -> v4: 99.99.99.99/30
LAN (lan) -> mvneta0.4091 ->
OPT (opt1) -> mvneta0.4092 -> v4: 10.74.0.1/24
INT54 (opt2) -> mvneta0.54 -> v4: 10.18.54.254/24
INT55 (opt3) -> mvneta0.55 -> v4: 10.18.55.254/24

The Netgate 2100 uses the same Marvell Chip but different port assignments

The WAN port seems to be on a different device (mvneta0 with it's own MAC Address), and the 4 x ethernet ports are on the same Marvell Switch Chip and on (mvneta1 with it's own MAC Address)

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