Setting up a VLAN part 2
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You're right it was a typo. And N just meaned that anyway there is no connection between, so it doesn't matter what is the language of your switch
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ok, i set it up as posted but still not getting a 10.10.10.x ip on the spare/test laptop (plugged into port 2 on hp switch).
here is what the switch and pfsense look like
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one thing to note, the 192 network is working with this setup.
when i did this last night, i couldnt get 192 or 10 to work, so i am getting somewhere with the tagging/untagging/excluding.
i should also note that both yesterday and today (prior to messing with this) the pfsense lan cable re2 plugged in directly to my netgear.
once i started setting this up, i made sure to unplug re2 from my netgear switch into port 1 of the hp switch (vlan switch) just in case someone thought that wasnt happening.
thanks
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Hmm, that's not right. Set the participation as Metu69salemi suggetsed earlier.
Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 VLAN1 U E * * U U VLAN100 T U * * E E
If that doesn't work try:
Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 VLAN1 T E * * U U VLAN100 T U * * E E
Steve
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Hmm, that's not right. Set the participation as Metu69salemi suggetsed earlier.
Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 VLAN1 U E * * U U VLAN100 T U * * E E
If that doesn't work try:
Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 VLAN1 T E * * U U VLAN100 T U * * E E
Steve
ok, the first config doesnt give my laptop an IP, but 192 network can go online
with the second config…i get no ip to my laptop and 192 network cant go online.
EDIT- if my pfsense settings look ok, then i can stop looking there. do you guys want pics of the DHCP server settings? i set it up the same as 192 DHCP settings, so anything plugged into port 2 of my vlan switch should get an IP address from 10.10.10.x from pfsense.
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Ok stick with the first config then.
You may as well post your DHCP config, it might help.What exactly are you using ports 3 and 4 for?
Have you added firewall rules for the vlan interface? I assumed you had. DHCP should work anyway.
The confusing thing here, for me, is that a packet tagged with vlan ID 1 is not the same as an untagged packet.
It shouldn't be this difficult so something is obviously wrong somewhere!Steve
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Ok stick with the first config then.
You may as well post your DHCP config, it might help.What exactly are you using ports 3 and 4 for?
Have you added firewall rules for the vlan interface? I assumed you had. DHCP should work anyway.
The confusing thing here, for me, is that a packet tagged with vlan ID 1 is not the same as an untagged packet.
It shouldn't be this difficult so something is obviously wrong somewhere!Steve
ports 3/4 are trunked/bonded to my NAS. just trying to get the most i can with two cat5 cables. the nas also has a 'bond' with the two nic ports.
here is the DHCP screen shot for 10.10.10.x and i have not written any firewall rules, i agree with you in that it should still assign it an IP address.
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can you show your rules of wifi interface?
and still i'd like to use that
port: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vlan1: U E U U U U U U vlan100: T U E E E E E E
or then go the later solution(port 1 tagged in both vlans), but you'll have to setup management on other nic and networks in other nic
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This could be the reason the tagged and untagged traffic should not be on the same interface. ::)
I have not experienced how problems would show up.Steve
Edit: Reading 'the definitive guide' for inspiration I see that this could be a problem related to the NIC not supporting the increased frame size required by the VLAN tag.
In particular it mentions that Realtek interfaces may not support it even if they report doing so. Though that is for rl(4) rather than re(4). -
can you show your rules of wifi interface?
and still i'd like to use that
port: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vlan1: U E U U U U U U vlan100: T U E E E E E E
or then go the later solution(port 1 tagged in both vlans), but you'll have to setup management on other nic and networks in other nic
ok, i will take a look at that setup and report back.
also, unless some default rules were put in place, i didnt create any rules, but i will post a screen of that and add in some common/default rules to see if that does it.
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This could be the reason the tagged and untagged traffic should not be on the same interface. ::)
I have not experienced how problems would show up.Steve
Edit: Reading 'the definitive guide' for inspiration I see that this could be a problem related to the NIC not supporting the increased frame size required by the VLAN tag.
In particular it mentions that Realtek interfaces may not support it even if they report doing so. Though that is for rl(4) rather than re(4).if the above config doesnt work, i am going to stop trying to do it with 1 NIC and will bring in the second nic.
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Here is what I would do:
Disable trunking/bonding for now, it's just adding a further complication and you can add it back once you figure out VLANs. (what VLANs did you set on the trunk in the switch?)Setup the second interface so that you have access to the webgui even if everything on the first interface gets locked out.
Unassign the first interface so that it's not sending untagged packets. Create a VLAN on it, VLAN100 say, and then try to configure the switch to work with it.
Add more VLANs once that's working.
Steve
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Here is what I would do:
Disable trunking/bonding for now, it's just adding a further complication and you can add it back once you figure out VLANs. (what VLANs did you set on the trunk in the switch?)Setup the second interface so that you have access to the webgui even if everything on the first interface gets locked out.
Unassign the first interface so that it's not sending untagged packets. Create a VLAN on it, VLAN100 say, and then try to configure the switch to work with it.
Add more VLANs once that's working.
Steve
everything you mentioned is my problem (tagging/untagging).
since i get confused, i wont know if i am doing it right.
not sure how to setup management to be accessible from both vlans?
also, you can see how the trunk was configured in the pics above. i dont think there are issues with that, worst case scenario (if i set it up wrong) i wont be able to access my NAS, not critical.
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I meant the second interface on the pfSense box so you don't get locked out of pfSense.
It looks like you're doing everything right. At this point you have not been able to see any VLAN activity in any way, at an time, yes?
It seems likely that your pfSense box is not sending VLAN frames for some reason. Could be a config issue, it could be that your NIC is interfering etc.Once you are able to access the pfSense gui via a different interface you can safely play with these settings and not get locked out.
Steve
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I meant the second interface on the pfSense box so you don't get locked out of pfSense.
It looks like you're doing everything right. At this point you have not been able to see any VLAN activity in any way, at an time, yes?
It seems likely that your pfSense box is not sending VLAN frames for some reason. Could be a config issue, it could be that your NIC is interfering etc.Once you are able to access the pfSense gui via a different interface you can safely play with these settings and not get locked out.
Steve
gotcha…yeah, i might just give up on trying to do it with 1 nic/1 cable mainly because i forgot about the compatibility issue, even if it is setup right, i might be using a nic card that isnt compatible.
thanks for the help to all up to this point.
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ok, i decided to not try it with 1 NIC….
i get the second nic setup and assign vlan100 to run on re1.
i know pfsense sees the NIC because i see it in the GUI.
my HP sees RE1 because the green LEDs come on and i see it highlight in the hp GUI.
however, i dont see the link activity LEDs on the NIC turn on. maybe i have a bad NIC? i'd have to see if i have another one somewhere.
anyway....
how should i be tagging/untagging/excluding ports?
i tried a few combindations and i still get 169.254 as the IP on my laptop.
keep in mind, i need to add an additional port to vlan100 on the hp switch because the only port i was using before, port 2 was for testing my laptop, is now being used to connect to the pfsense NIC.
i decided to use ports 7 and 8 as my vlan100 ports
ports that should be on vlan 1- 1,2,3/4,5,6 (3/4 is the trunk/bond, but i can easily assign that to a vlan1 via the tag/untagg screen.
ports that should be on vlan 100- 7,8
let me take a stab...
vlan1- UUUUUUTT
vlan100- EEEEEEUU -
yeah, something is wrong with the nic in the pfsense box (re1).
i bypassed the hp switch and went directly into my laptop and it goes on….off....on....off....on....off
however, we can still talk about tagging/untagging for when i do find a another NIC.
edit- found a good/compatible NIC card. plugged it in, plugged in m laptop and i have green LEDs, re1, back online.
now for the u/t/e portion.
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or we can start off by trying to get an ip address from 10.10.10.1/24 with my laptop plugged directly into pfsense vlan interface. might as well try that before bringing in the switch, right?
EDIT- strange issue…when i enabled the dhcp server for the vlan (while not being able to grab an IP address with my laptop plugged in directly) it seems that my 192.168.1.x dhcp server (seperate interface) cant hand out any new IP addresses. i had trouble grabbing an IP with a new device and the only change had been the vlan dhcp server (10.10.10.x). unchecked it, saved, new device instantly got an IP address (192.168.1.x).
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i've dropped out what happened, did you setup another nic which is handling two vlans? or did you setup interface only handling one vlan
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@tomdlgns:
or we can start off by trying to get an ip address from 10.10.10.1/24 with my laptop plugged directly into pfsense vlan interface. might as well try that before bringing in the switch, right?
Nope.
Your laptop will not see the vlan tagged packets at all, it's NIC will just discard them. You need the switch to read in the tagged packets, route them to the correct port and remove the tags so that you laptop see standard untagged packets.@tomdlgns:
EDIT- strange issue…when i enabled the dhcp server for the vlan (while not being able to grab an IP address with my laptop plugged in directly) it seems that my 192.168.1.x dhcp server (seperate interface) cant hand out any new IP addresses. i had trouble grabbing an IP with a new device and the only change had been the vlan dhcp server (10.10.10.x). unchecked it, saved, new device instantly got an IP address (192.168.1.x).
No idea what's happening there, that is strange.
Steve
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i've dropped out what happened, did you setup another nic which is handling two vlans? or did you setup interface only handling one vlan
yes, i have a second NIC installed with vlan100 and dhcp server is enabled.
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@tomdlgns:
or we can start off by trying to get an ip address from 10.10.10.1/24 with my laptop plugged directly into pfsense vlan interface. might as well try that before bringing in the switch, right?
Nope.
Your laptop will not see the vlan tagged packets at all, it's NIC will just discard them. You need the switch to read in the tagged packets, route them to the correct port and remove the tags so that you laptop see standard untagged packets.@tomdlgns:
EDIT- strange issue…when i enabled the dhcp server for the vlan (while not being able to grab an IP address with my laptop plugged in directly) it seems that my 192.168.1.x dhcp server (seperate interface) cant hand out any new IP addresses. i had trouble grabbing an IP with a new device and the only change had been the vlan dhcp server (10.10.10.x). unchecked it, saved, new device instantly got an IP address (192.168.1.x).
No idea what's happening there, that is strange.
Steve
ok, makes sense.
since i was just plugged into my laptop that could be why it wasnt working, i understand that i need to bring the switch in. i just assumed since the laptop was connected directly to the second nic with vlan100 assigned to it in pfsense, that i would have no need for a switch. however, it makes perfect sense that i need the vlan switch.
with all that said, i'd like to get the vlan tagging correct now with two nics
vlan1 on the hp switch should be ports
1,2,3,4,5,6
vlan 100 on the hp switch should be ports
7,8
vlan1- U U U U U U T T
vlan100- E E E E E E U Uis that close?
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ports 1-6 would be 192.168.1.x network
ports 7/8 would be 10.10.10.x network
port 7 is patch cable to vlan100 nic (second NIC) on pfsense box
port 8 is patch cable to a wifi router with DHCP disabled (pfsense will do that) or a direct laptop. -
VLAN1 is probably going to stop working here because hopefully you will stop sending any untagged packets to the switch from pfSense.
Configure the switch:
port: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vlan1: U U U U U U E E vlan100: T E E E E E U U
Unassign re1 from LAN to stop is sending untagged packets. This will lock you out of the pfSense box if you haven't got access from re2.
Steve
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VLAN1 is probably going to stop working here because hopefully you will stop sending any untagged packets to the switch from pfSense.
Configure the switch:
port: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vlan1: U U U U U U E E vlan100: T E E E E E U U
Unassign re1 from LAN to stop is sending untagged packets. This will lock you out of the pfSense box if you haven't got access from re2.
Steve
vlan 1 is going to stop working? what does that mean? i would still like all 192. computers to work.
by tagging port 1 in vlan100 is that what 'unassing re1 from LAN to stop sending untagged packets' is?
i will wait for a reply before i set it up that way.
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create a new vlan say 10 or something else than 1 or 100
Use only your current lan interface as management interface and both two vlan's to the same nic where you have vlan currently.
so your network would be
nic(lan): 192.168.1.1 /24 for management, you could also use something else subnet area
vlan10 (on another nic): this would be your current lan, so whatever you like to use, but notice, that this vlan and above management subnet wouldn't work if they have same subnets
vlan100 (on same nic as vlan10): this would be same as currentlythen add current configs to switch
vlan10: T U U U U U E E
vlan100: T E E E E E U U
remember to connect port 1 to pfsense -
create a new vlan say 10 or something else than 1 or 100
Use only your current lan interface as management interface and both two vlan's to the same nic where you have vlan currently.
so your network would be
nic(lan): 192.168.1.1 /24 for management, you could also use something else subnet area
vlan10 (on another nic): this would be your current lan, so whatever you like to use, but notice, that this vlan and above management subnet wouldn't work if they have same subnets
vlan100 (on same nic as vlan10): this would be same as currentlythen add current configs to switch
vlan10: T U U U U U E E
vlan100: T E E E E E U U
remember to connect port 1 to pfsenseok, what does vlan1 look like in the hp switch?
i think you just confused me more.
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in this topology it doesn't exist
It is only "console" access to the firewall -
in this topology it doesn't exist
It is only "console" access to the firewalllet me rephrase.
that is ok if it is there and i dont use it, but i will have it in my switch. after reading the post, it seems as if my switch needs to look like this
vlan1
vlan10
vlan100maybe we should start with pfsense, do i have that configured properly?
re0- WAN
re1- vlan100 (10.10.10.1) dhcp enabled
re2- LAN (192.168.1.1) dhcp enabled–------------------
pfsense LAN goes into HP port 1 (vlan?) 192.168.1.x
pfsense vlan100 goes into HP port 7 (vlan100 on hp switch) 10.10.10.x and port 8 needs to be on vlan100 as well.
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does the pfsense NIC even need to be a VLAN? if i am using a seperate NIC, shouldnt i be able to assign it to 10.10.10.x and deal with VLANs in the HP switch to segregate 10 traffic vs 192 traffic?
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did you guys give up on me?
;D
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Sorry I was out on an all night 120 mile cycle ride Saturday night. Yesterday was pretty much a write off! :)
I think we could easily loose sight of the big picture here.
The aim of this exercise is to learn about VLANs. The configuration we are hoping to end up with is:
pfSense using two interfaces, WAN on re0 and VLANs on re1.
The HP switch configured to split the VLANs between some it's ports. Such that some ports are pfSenses LAN interface and some are pfSenses other interface.Although you have LAN setup on re2 at the moment that's only temporary while we configure VLANs on re1.
Setup another VLAN as Metu69salemi suggested.
You should only have one cable between pfSense (re1) and the trunk port on the switch (port1).
Steve
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Sorry I was out on an all night 120 mile cycle ride Saturday night. Yesterday was pretty much a write off! :)
I think we could easily loose sight of the big picture here.
The aim of this exercise is to learn about VLANs. The configuration we are hoping to end up with is:
pfSense using two interfaces, WAN on re0 and VLANs on re1.
The HP switch configured to split the VLANs between some it's ports. Such that some ports are pfSenses LAN interface and some are pfSenses other interface.Although you have LAN setup on re2 at the moment that's only temporary while we configure VLANs on re1.
Setup another VLAN as Metu69salemi suggested.
You should only have one cable between pfSense (re1) and the trunk port on the switch (port1).
Steve
hmmm, now i am confused, it is official.
i thought that doing everything from one interface was part of the reason i wasnt able to verify if i had everythign configured properly?
wasnt the recommendation to use 3 NICS?
re0- WAN
re1- VLANs (originally not in play)
re2- LAN (for 192.168.1.x network)that would mean two connections from pfsense to my switch
re1- for VLANs (or 10.10.10.x network)
re0- for the regular 192.168.1.x networkunless i missed something, that is how i thought it was going to end up.
thanks.
(btw, i dont blame you for taking the day off, the weekends are there to enjoy and relax, sounds like you did both) :)
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i have access to another switch i can use, but it isnt in the mix yet, just want some feedback…
it is an HP switch, but a little more advanced/better GUI than the one i am using.
in this switch, the vlan has 4 options:
no
tagged
untagged
forbidi assume forbid= exclude
or is it
no=exclude
part of the confusion is that:
-i have never had to use vlans, but i want to learn
-every piece of device i have logged into with vlan capabilities has a different 'look' to it. -
Please see attached file
you could also allow from the switch to use another management ip from another vlan or setup another management vlan
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Please see attached file
you could also allow from the switch to use another management ip from another vlan or setup another management vlanwhat is console? 1 PC i have connected to pfsense just to login to it to make changes?
also, wiring it up isnt a problem.
if i wire it i need to be able to build out the vlans for it to function properly.
i need guidance on that portion. i guess i need to go to the HP forums and ask them what the proper way to tag/untag is? that is my issue here (i think pfsense is setup properly).
thanks.
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Console means, that you sit next to that machine, but in this case it's only needed if you have locked you self out from another vlan
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Console means, that you sit next to that machine, but in this case it's only needed if you have locked you self out from another vlan
the HP switch has a management port section where i can dedicate 1 of the ports as a managed port.
i dont think that will be an issue unless i screw up the tagging/untagging/exclude, which is where i am stuck.
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@tomdlgns:
hmmm, now i am confused, it is official.
i thought that doing everything from one interface was part of the reason i wasnt able to verify if i had everythign configured properly?
wasnt the recommendation to use 3 NICS?
re0- WAN
re1- VLANs (originally not in play)
re2- LAN (for 192.168.1.x network)Originally you wanted to use just two interfaces on the pfSense machine so that is what we are attempting to achieve. We only recommended you setup re2 so that you didn't get locked out of pfSense if you configured VLANs incorrectly. You have assigned LAN to it but we didn't expect you to. It could be any OPT interface.
@tomdlgns:
that would mean two connections from pfsense to my switch
re1- for VLANs (or 10.10.10.x network)
re0- for the regular 192.168.1.x networkunless i missed something, that is how i thought it was going to end up.
Whilst you could have both interfaces connected to the switch it would be far more complex to setup and MUCH more likely to cause problems.
Technically you don't need use VLANs at all, you want two subnets and you have two interfaces.
Let me layout what I expect the final configuration to be.
WAN - re0
LAN - VLAN10 - re1 192.168.1.X
OPT1 - VLAN100 - re1 10.10.10.X
OPT2 - re2 192.168.2.XI hope that makes some sort of sense!
Steve
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@tomdlgns:
hmmm, now i am confused, it is official.
i thought that doing everything from one interface was part of the reason i wasnt able to verify if i had everythign configured properly?
wasnt the recommendation to use 3 NICS?
re0- WAN
re1- VLANs (originally not in play)
re2- LAN (for 192.168.1.x network)Originally you wanted to use just two interfaces on the pfSense machine so that is what we are attempting to achieve. We only recommended you setup re2 so that you didn't get locked out of pfSense if you configured VLANs incorrectly. You have assigned LAN to it but we didn't expect you to. It could be any OPT interface.
@tomdlgns:
that would mean two connections from pfsense to my switch
re1- for VLANs (or 10.10.10.x network)
re0- for the regular 192.168.1.x networkunless i missed something, that is how i thought it was going to end up.
Whilst you could have both interfaces connected to the switch it would be far more complex to setup and MUCH more likely to cause problems.
Technically you don't need use VLANs at all, you want two subnets and you have two interfaces.
Let me layout what I expect the final configuration to be.
WAN - re0
LAN - VLAN10 - re1 192.168.1.X
OPT1 - VLAN100 - re1 10.10.10.X
OPT2 - re2 192.168.2.XI hope that makes some sort of sense!
Steve
this gets better and better
where is 192.168.2.x coming from? and now another NIC?
-i'd like to setup a VLAN so i can work/test with it
-i can easily setup a second NIC/subnet using another switch, but that wont incorporate a VLAN, so i dont want to go that route.what i planned on was this:
re0-WAN
re1- VLAN100 10.10.10.x
re2- my regular lan 192.168.1.xwhat i wanted to do was then use my hp switch to work with the pfsense box
ports 1-4 would run the 192.168.1.x network and ports 5-8 would be tagged ports on vlan 100. i assumed that doing it this way would allow anything plugged into ports 5-8 would work on the vlan100 network.
later on, if i introduced a second vlan, vlan200 i THOUGHT i would be able to untag ports 7.8 and tag those in vlan 200 to work on another subnet.
apparently i am wrong in how vlans work, but i thought that was the entire point of VLANS… separate networks on the same physical switch.
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are you guys saying that i cant have anything on the default lan tagged with vlan 100 traffic?
do i need to do something like this
default vlan- EEEEEEEE (this would need a 'console PC' so i could login to pfsense on 192.168.1.1 and make changes)
vlan10- TTTTUUUU (ports 1-4 tagged for vlan10)
vlan100-UUUUTTTT (ports 5-8 tagged for vlan100)or am i still way off?
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@tomdlgns:
this gets better and better
:D
@tomdlgns:
where is 192.168.2.x coming from? and now another NIC?
192.168.2.X is just a subnet I invented to be the extra interface used for admin access.
There are still only 3 NICs but there are two VLANs on re1.@tomdlgns:
-i'd like to setup a VLAN so i can work/test with it
what i planned on was this:re0-WAN
re1- VLAN100 10.10.10.x
re2- my regular lan 192.168.1.xOk, we can aim for this. This will use three NICs at the end where as originally you wanted to use just two.
@tomdlgns:
what i wanted to do was then use my hp switch to work with the pfsense box
ports 1-4 would run the 192.168.1.x network and ports 5-8 would be tagged ports on vlan 100. i assumed that doing it this way would allow anything plugged into ports 5-8 would work on the vlan100 network.
later on, if i introduced a second vlan, vlan200 i THOUGHT i would be able to untag ports 7.8 and tag those in vlan 200 to work on another subnet.
Yes that's what we will do except that you will need 2 of the ports on your switch to connect to the pfSense box so you will only have 6 left for connecting clients (or other switches).
@tomdlgns:
apparently i am wrong in how vlans work, but i thought that was the entire point of VLANS… separate networks on the same physical switch.
You are right, that's exactly what they're for.
Here is the switch config I would expect to work for your current setup:
port: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vlan1: E E E E U U U U vlan100: T U U U E E E E
In which port 1 is connected to re1 and port 8 is connected to re2.
This will give you 10.10.10.x on ports 2-4 and 192.168.1.X on ports 5-7.Are all your NICs identical?
Steve
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@tomdlgns:
this gets better and better
:D
@tomdlgns:
where is 192.168.2.x coming from? and now another NIC?
192.168.2.X is just a subnet I invented to be the extra interface used for admin access.
There are still only 3 NICs but there are two VLANs on re1.@tomdlgns:
-i'd like to setup a VLAN so i can work/test with it
what i planned on was this:re0-WAN
re1- VLAN100 10.10.10.x
re2- my regular lan 192.168.1.xOk, we can aim for this. This will use three NICs at the end where as originally you wanted to use just two.
@tomdlgns:
what i wanted to do was then use my hp switch to work with the pfsense box
ports 1-4 would run the 192.168.1.x network and ports 5-8 would be tagged ports on vlan 100. i assumed that doing it this way would allow anything plugged into ports 5-8 would work on the vlan100 network.
later on, if i introduced a second vlan, vlan200 i THOUGHT i would be able to untag ports 7.8 and tag those in vlan 200 to work on another subnet.
Yes that's what we will do except that you will need 2 of the ports on your switch to connect to the pfSense box so you will only have 6 left for connecting clients (or other switches).
@tomdlgns:
apparently i am wrong in how vlans work, but i thought that was the entire point of VLANS… separate networks on the same physical switch.
You are right, that's exactly what they're for.
Here is the switch config I would expect to work for your current setup:
port: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vlan1: E E E E U U U U vlan100: T U U U E E E E
In which port 1 is connected to re1 and port 8 is connected to re2.
This will give you 10.10.10.x on ports 2-4 and 192.168.1.X on ports 5-7.Are all your NICs identical?
Steve
thanks steve. i didnt realize, until after i posted, that you were using the same nic for the other vlan, my bad on that.
i have 3 nics now and i wanted to only use 2 until it was brought up that carrying multiple vlan traffic over 1 wire/nic might not work if the nic isnt vlan compatible, that is when the second LAN NIC (3rd NIC if you count WAN) was introduced.
i realize i will only have 6 ports to use for devices, but what i was getting at was that 1-4 was for 1 subnet and 5-8 was for another subnet (or did i mess up again)? 1 and 5 would be used for the respective NICs on pfsense.
my main goal is to
-incorporate a vlan
-not lock myself out of anythingi want to keep my existing 192.168.1.x network as is (for the other devices on it) and i want to be able to manage pfsense from any 192.168.1.x computer
knowing all of that, do you still suggest i connect/configure my network with what your last posted stated?
i dont mind a little redesign, but i want to make sure we are talking about the same stuff when i begin to implement this