SG-1100 together with Unifi switch and wireless, with VLAN - setup?
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Hi.
Pretty new eith pfSense here. Just bought SG-1100 and in the past days i have managed to set it up together with my old wireless router. Now that will be replaced (since it's old and starting to malfunction) and i'm looking into unifi and their 8 port switch with poe and connect a wireless unifi thingie to that.
But... Now, i have two VLAN (might want more in the future) that for know is active on wireless. One for my 'smart home' and one for other stuff, and those two are separated. To have a future guest account would also be nice...
I have tried searching around and found some information about VLAN on SG-1100 and unifi but, to be honest - i do not get it really.
So, can you all help me out here, in a plain simple way?
Setup today:
Internet connects to WAN on SG-1100 then the LAN port goes to WAN on the old router that is just set as classic routing, and in the old router i have set up WLAN on wireless and it just works.
Now, can i do the same but with unifi switch and wireless thingie? Or do i have to have another router? The best would of course be if i could just add a bunch of VLAN in SG-1100 and then use the switch and then wireless thingie and get it all to work, but - is that possible, and HOW? In a simple manner please!
I for now do NOT have unifi stuff since i want to be sure that i can pull this off so i do not buy a bunch of stuff that is the wrong stuff. -
Hi
I have a similar setup: pfSense running on x64 hardware, with a TP-Link managed switch and 3 Unifi AP's.
The Unifi AP's handle 2 SSID, one for "trusted" devices, the other one for IoT and guests.
In pfSense, you just have to add a VLAN type interface, and create some firewall/NAT rules to allow you device access to internet (and some rules to prevent them to see your trusted devices, in the other VLAN).
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Thank you for a quick answer!
Can you please explain in some simple way how i set up pfSense?
Let us just use simple "VLAN1" and "VLAN2" and "VLAN3" as an example.
I have had the pfSense for a few days and just barely started to figure out some basic things in it so, well... almost starting to crawl, but only just. =)
And sadly my old router is about to.. die, any moment (already had a LOT of trouble with it today and with some CPR i have managed to get network in somewhat working order again after it just... stopped working this evening) so i really would like to just spend some money tomorrow to get somethings running properly again.
(Bad week this... power went out for a while yesterday (a bit windy...), water went out for a while today (giant water leak nearby) and now internet, and i have a young daughter that will have a real meltdown if internet doesn't work since she REALLY needs here favorite color videos on YouTube.)