Cable Internet - modem upstairs - ethernet into server - out to upstairs
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Summary - cable modem ethernet run down in the basement into esxi server - one physical port - into pfSense WAN - then LAN would be my esxi virtual adapter which is another physical port - going into a switch with all other cat5 cables - and then in that switch, a cable running back upstairs and into a Cisco wireless router. Is this possible or are they too many routers and wires that would completely bottleneck everything?
So, this is my layout. I have a cable modem which needs to be on the first floor. IT has my phone line and a few other things like TiVo wireless connectors.
Now, I can send a cat5 line down in my basement (I have one coming up into the router upstairs - switched in the basement) and in a rack server that I have.
The rack server will run ESXi - and with two network cards in the virtual machine. One will be WAN only, and the other will be LAN - which will hook up existing virtual machines if I put them on that node (I have other servers, but I don't want only pfSense on this because it's a crazy powerful server.So that would be my WAN, correct? Would it automatically see that? So, just like a router has an IP address, I'd set one up in pfSense I'm assuming. So then, LAN would be the other virtual adapter and would have virtual machines on it as well. But, a network cable will then go into the 24 port switch - which then connects all other servers and remote KVM instances. Then, in that same switch, will be a wire going upstairs. There, it will go into a 'Internet(?) or WAN(?)' port and then be my wireless AP and switch to connect the printer server, caption phone, and that's it.
So the DHCP server is on a different server than the pfSense install. I'm confused on how I'd set that up, being there is so many cables and routers involved. So I would setup the IP address for the gateway… that would be my gateway, right?
Now, how about the wireless router upstairs? I'd disable DHCP, but I'd set it as a different IP (instead of default).I don't know - I don't have time to experiment or even the availability, unless I take everything in the basement and run it there. However, I trade currency and I cannot have the downtime because of my charts, and I have a family of 5 that always need Internet. Two younger sisters, the one doesn't have a large pool of data on her phone and uses our wireless.
It just seems like with being so many cables and such, this is going to lag like hell. There aren't any bottlenecks, everything runs on Gigabit, but it seems like it has to go so far.
Any kind suggestions?
I would definitely put the cable modem downstairs if I knew it didn't have a bunch of stuff that needed connectivity, primarily only the phone. So that is a bit out of the question since it's away from the TV (the TV is closest to the basement wire rundown) and the guy already put a hole through the siding to fish the coaxial into the house. But with that being down there, it would be so much easier to run my pre-existing cable up being my LAN.
Ah lol.It just seems like so many routers and so many IP addresses.
I have a good amount of networking experience. I've studied it thoroughly in vocational school while in high school. It was my major for a semester, but got boring. :/
I was directed to a college in Pennsylvania, my state, and the statewide competition - my college won, first, second, and third place out of six winners with a networking competition. So I was taught pretty good but not being my major, I didn't really take too many networking classes. Just intro, and about five more up to CISC300 classes. I was the smartest in one or few of my classes. I was calling out cname, mx, a records, and the professor said "So you know this?" and everyone was like "No, he knows it but not us!"So I learn on my own, and it's been that way forever. I haven't learned anything new in college, which is why my major is now changing to behavioral neuroscience.
So that's my introduction, I do have experience and all, so provide a thoughtful response if you'd like! haha -
Hi,
sorry my english is not so good. Please make a draw of your network setup( or how you want to have the network flow) and maybe i can help you.
Have your ESXI 2 physical networkcards, no than use vlan´s but then your switch must be an managedable one.docsis –----[ESXI[WAN - PFSENSE - LAN]]–---[SWITCH]–--[AP]
regards max