Netgate Discussion Forum
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    Configure pfSense VM with Multi-Port NIC

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General pfSense Questions
    1 Posts 1 Posters 201 Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • S
      simon_lefisch
      last edited by

      Hey everyone,

      I am looking at reconfiguring my pfSense VM (KVM) for use with a multi-port NIC card and was wondering if anyone could give pros/cons about doing it this way.

      Some background of my current setup.....I have a CentOS 7 box running KVM/Open vSwitch. Currently have my pfSense VM setup with VLANs for MGMT/LAN/WLAN/WLAN-Guest. I have one NIC port connected directly to my modem using macvtap and the other is an OVS bridge, which also physically connects to my managed switch. However I was thinking of doing one physical port for LAN, one for WLAN, and one for MGMT. The guest wifi I would run as a VLAN on the WLAN interface.

      What do you think as far as changing to this setup? Would it be any better my current setup? Just curious about peoples opinions. Thanks!

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • First post
        Last post
      Copyright 2025 Rubicon Communications LLC (Netgate). All rights reserved.