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Trying to use VLANs to setup a small home lab.


I have the modem plugged into port 1.  No DHCP from the modem.  Single IP only.
I have an ESX 6.5 host plugged into port 2 with one gigabit NIC (M93P Tiny)
Ports 3, 4, and 5 have a media box, PS4, and Wireless AP.

VLAN 1 is the LAN
VLAN 2 is the WAN

I want to have port 2 tagged with both VLAN 1 and 2 as a trunk port.  Since the modem isn't VLAN aware I want it to be on VLAN 1 and tag/untag it so that it can be picked up by the ESX box. 

I don't want 3, 4, or 5 to be able to talk to the modem.

This is how everything is tagged currently and the PVID for all 5 ports is set to VLAN 1:

VLAN ID	VLAN Name	Member Ports	Tagged Ports	Untagged Ports	Delete
1	LAN	2-5	2	3-5
2	WAN	1-2	2	1

I will be setting up a VM on the ESX box to run pfSense for DHCP and Server 2016 for DNS.  I have setup 2 port groups on the ESX box.  Both are tagged with VLANs 1 and 2.  The pfSense VM has both adapters connected and the Server 2016 VM has the LAN adapter connected.

When I fire up the pfSense box to autoconfigure the WAN, it can't find a link.


What am I doing wrong?  Will ESX even pickup the VLAN settings?