PFSENSE AS ROUTER

[bharlequin]

Hello,

I am working on a project and is testing Netgate as Edge firewall and router on my network and would appreciate any feed back on this

I have uploaded a Network DESIGN showing how I intend to utilized PF SENSE.

your feed back are all welcome

[stephenw10]

That could certainly be done. You may be better off using an actual layer 3 switch depending on the bandwidth.
If not though, why are you separating those functions between two devices?

Steve

[RedSector73]

@bharlequin To bridge the connections, I would follow this guide
How to Bridge LAN PfSence

In addition, you need to make the First LAN, a static MAC or else all the computers (Windows 10 or 11 and Android, I know do this) on the bridge LAN network will keep detecting the PfSence as a new network device each time the PfSence is rebooted.

Hope this helpful.

[stephenw10]

Bridging the NICs like that would create the equivalent of a layer 2 switch. There's no need to do that for the above setup where it's acting as a router / L3 switch.

Steve

[RedSector73]

@stephenw10 My bad, just read router and assumed layer 2 switch.

[bharlequin]

@stephenw10

IT budget is limited at the moment, as a start we wanted to use PSENSE as a router.

[bharlequin]

@stephenw10
I was not doing any bridging, I am using a server with 8nics install on it.

We want to improve on security for a Data center.

[stephenw10]

Well, it will work. Try it and see.

What hardware? What bandwidth?

Steve