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    6 Ethernet interfaces on board, how to?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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      DangerD
      last edited by

      I have Chinese motherboard N70SL which has 6x 1000Mbps ports.
      1st one is configured as WAN, works fine
      Another 5 i want to configure as LAN, can i configure them as one ip as on regular router or i should assign them ip and configure dhcp and set for every lan interface with different ip ranges?

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      • kiokomanK
        kiokoman LAYER 8
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        create 5 interface without setting IPs then you can make a bridge of all that interfaces and set the ip on the bridge only

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        • viktor_gV
          viktor_g Netgate
          last edited by

          Bridging and Interfaces:
          https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/bridging/bridging-and-interfaces.html

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          • chpalmerC
            chpalmer
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            Just remember doing this can be a bit harder on the resources of the box. Especially if you have allot of LAN to LAN traffic..

            Triggering snowflakes one by one..
            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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