Yes, I found this a very helpful email. Please post it! We need to
accumulate information like this and this email description on VLAN was a
keeper.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] VLAN support
Michael,
No offense, but how about storing howtos/guides (like described in your
mail) at http://doc.pfsense.org and linking to it in your mailanswer next
time? At least if the answer is that extensive and general usable. This way
the documentation would become more and more complete.
Just as an addition, don't use VLAN1 as it often is preconfigured and/or
used for special things like administration and so on.
Holger
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Vrettos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] VLAN support
Hi there,
We've have a pfsense setup with vlans to engage 6 adsl lines
+ lan + wifi to a 3 nics Server (2 x 10/100 + 1 Gbit)
To accomplish a similar setup you need a vlan capable switch.
We did that with a netgear smart switch
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Switches/SmartSwitches/FS726T.aspx
Once you become familiar with your vlan switch you must setup
your desired vlans.
In our case we only using the switch to connect our adsl
lines with 1 of the server nics (10/100). We connect the
other 10/100 nic with a wifi AP and the remaining gigabit nic
with our LAN switches.
We don't use the 10/100 nic directly in pfsense.. we rather
created vlans based on that nic.. vlan1 to vlan6; vlan1 -->
wan, vlan2 --> opt1, ..vlan6
--> opt5 (we renamed opt1 to wan2, etc.).
IMPORTANT: USE SAME VLAN NAMES in your switch!.. meaning that
if you create "vlan1" in pfsense then you need to do the same
in the switch (switch "vlan1").
Our netgear setup was straight forward.. we dedicated switch
ports 1-6 to the adsl modem/routers and port 24 for the
pfsense nic, creating vlan1 = switch port1 --> switch port24,
... vlan6 = switch port6 --> switch port24.
Then we connected adsl modem1 to switch port1 and so on.
Every modem has a lan side ip of type 192.168.x0.1/255.255.255.0
So modem 1 has ip 192.168.20.1 and vlan1 interface in pfsense
(dedicated to
wan) has ip 192.168.20.10 with GW 192.168.20.1 (adsl modem's
ip).. modem 2 has ip 192.168.30.1 and vlan2 interface in
pfsense (dedicated to opt1) has ip 192.168.30.10 with GW
192.168.30.1 (adsl modem's 2 ip)..and so on.
After that you need to setup pfsense for load balancing if
you like and/or port forwarding + some other things..(ftp
helper, squid, etc.).
In any case, you are right about lack of detailed howtos!!
Regards
Michael Vrettos
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-----Mensaje original-----
De: Joseph Favia Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado
el: Τετάρτη, 7 Φεβρουαρίου 2007 10:16 AM
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: [pfSense Support] VLAN support
Hi,
My pfsense machine has only got 3 physical interfaces and now
I need another network on which I've got to place a few new
servers. Is there any other method of defining an extra
network without having to open up my hardware? I read there
is VLAN support in PFSENSE, but cannot find any documentation
on how to set things up. Does anyone have any pointers or
instructions? I'd like to define two virtual addresses on
the same network card and use them as separate LANS.
Thanks
Joe
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