[kwlug-disc] PFSense and USB 2.0 NICs

[bob+kwlug at softscape.ca]

> +1 for the person who comment about using VLANs.  This is what I do;
> traffic comes into PFsense from the Internets, I chop it up into VLANs and
> send it out the single GigE link on a switch port allowing various tagged
> VLANs and have the switch disperse it from there into untagged ports
> depending on the type of traffic (voip/guest LAN/internal LAN/security
> cameras) or tagged for going to the Wifi APs (internal, guest).

In my experiment, I brought the Internet in through a VLAN on the switch (PPPoE all the way to the pfSense even!) so _everything_ was on 1 NIC.

IIRC, pfSense lets you create interfaces for the VLANs when you first install it from the bootup process (as well as from the web UI later) and it seemed intuitive enough that I got it right on the first try.

BB