Single WAN with multi LAN setups
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I want to have one wifi for me and the wife, and another for guest and all the other wifi things in the house. printer, Wii, PS3, ipad. I have all server class rigs for my FTP, RDP, & HTTP setup but I'm going thru a 24 port switch for everything. I want to have the power to limit the bandwidth per wifi access point. I have one 4 port Intel nic in my pfsense box, and two in my server, all my wired LAN lines are ok from my switch. I just want to add another wifi access point and have two coming out my pfsense box. or would I just leave well enough alone and add it to the switch.
configuration I was thinking about.on the pfsense box
4 port nic
port 1 switch
port 2 switch
port 3 wifi access point 1
port 4 wifi access point 2
can someone help me out please?
the way I have things now are.
pfsense box
on board NIC is my WAN
4 port Intel NIC
port 1 going to 24 port switch
port 2 NA
port 3 NA
port 4 NA -
Do you want your wifi networks to be on same network/vlan as any of your stuff on your switch. If so then should be connected to switch. If the vlans on your AP are going to be different than any of vlans on your switch then sure you could leverage interface on pfsense directly.
Are you short on ports on the switch? I am hoping the switch is smart/managed - and if your going to connect actual AP to it - maybe even poe?
You could leverage the other ports on your pfsense as uplinks for different vlans so your not hairpinning and sharing bandwidth for any intervlan traffic you might have.
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its a smart switch, I have plenty of ports left I'm just trying to get the most out of my network with the least amount of trouble. I want to keep the same subnet for all the ports on the pfsense box so all of my network can see everything but my guest. I have the guest access part figured out, my one airport will have the guest access turned on. that same access point I want to be able to throttle the bandwidth, my other airport access point will be wide open for bandwidth. my switch I have setup into four groups of 6, one group does one 4 port card in my ftp server group 2 does the other 4 port card in that same PC, I have 3 NAS's on the 3 group, and the last group has my pfsense box and wifi access points.
my network is probably broke up in a bad way but it does work for now I would just like to simplify it and have better control and network information.im not all that great on networking but I can get around and figure things out.
one thing I don't know is vlans, are you referring to port bridging?
