Multi-lan ports on same subnet.
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Hi,
I have a a Pfsense server on my home network. It has dual WAN and 6 Lan ports (Quad intel 1GbE and dual 10GbE Chelsio cards).
I understand I need to bridge the LAN ports to get the Pfsense box to act like a router with switch on the LAN side but am hitting issues with assigning IP addresses on the single LAN subnet (192.168.2.x).
I am generally used to having the subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 (or /24) but I am being given an error that the nic addresses are overlapping with another nic.
Does this mean I need to assign with a /32 and will this affect the DHCP or anything else of that type ?.
I was hoping to LACP the quad 1GbE links but Pfsense just kept blue screening each time I tried that (previous version maybe 6 months ago and have not tried again).
I am connecting to a HP 1810-48G web managed switch for 1GbE and two servers with the 2x 10GbE ports.
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Pfsense is not a switch. Every longtime member will advise against it.
I would be surprised if pfsense would show a blue screen.
Lacp is a valid option.
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So if that is the case is the prefered method to have the multiple nic ports on separate subnets and have Pfsense route all ther traffic between the different machines rather than bridging ?.
Blue screen was inaccurate. It kernal paniced and locked up refusing remote access at all. I had to hard reboot it and go back to the last known good config.
It occured multiple times as soon as I added the webmanagement interface to a LACP group. Without adding this interface, LACP works fine.
Would love to hear for anyone with advise on how best to make all ports available for a home network. Perfect is nto required. Working well is good enough.
Thanks
Update: It is a hard crash reboot not a hang and it was when I just added 3 of my 4 Intel i340-T4 ports to a LAGG (LACP). As soon as I saved the server rebooted. Port 1 (interface 0) was not added as it is my admin interface.