On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Dave Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I'm building out a new pfSense box, but the NICs have not yet arrived > and I'm wondering how much configuration I can do in advance. My > configuration will be a quad port Intel NIC, two ports will be WAN ports > directly connected to a pair of modems, and the other two will be a LACP > LAGG group carrying multiple tagged VLANs, routing some traffic > internally and some externally. > > Can I create the VLANs now and associate them with one of the onboard > NICs so that I can proceed with all the other configuration details, > DHCP servers, firewall rules custom NAT, and everything else, such that > when the real NIC is installed, I create the LAGG and re-assign the > interfaces? Or are there any "things" in pfSense that are associated > with the physical NIC rather than the interface? > > > _______________________________________________
You can. You can create VLANS, setup everything, and then after replace the interface assignments in the config file that you export. Since you are unfamiliar with the contents of the config: I would go ahead, set it all up w/ VLANs and export that config. When the nics come in, it would be easy to do a basic reinstall or whatever and let pfsense setup those interfaces. You could then export that config file and see how it names them and change the values in the VLAN setup config with a txt editor. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
