On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Anil Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a pfsense with two 10/100 PCI cards (acting as LAN & WAN router). > I have a 4 port (quad) 10/100 PCI (ZNYX ZX374) card. > If I were to add this card into the box and then add those ports and bridge > them with each other (completely away from LAN WAN) will those four ports > act like a VLAN capable switch? I don't don't have a VLAN capable switches > and by introducing this will I be able to run a VLAN based segmented > network. >
Based on your description, I don't think you understand what VLANs are. To make a 4 port NIC act like a VLAN switch, you would just put one IP subnet on each interface and not bridge anything. To make a 4 port NIC act like a switch that can control traffic between the ports using firewall rules, you can bridge them all together and configure your rules accordingly. That's nothing like a VLAN switch though. You will need a decently powerful (1 GHz or more) system to get 100 Mb wire speed through multiple interfaces simultaneously (and that's cutting it pretty close to the limit of the PCI bus with four 100 Mb ports on one PCI card). But if you don't need much throughput it will be fine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
