Looking for some recommendations on setup and routing.
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I have a netgate 3100 max with an unifi AP 6. This is the first pfsense system I have set up.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to configure my network.
Question 1: What Vlans do you recommend setting up for a home network.
Question 2: I have a computer that's running blue iris and a Plex server. I don't want the IP cameras Calling home but if I Vlan the cameras and the computer together the plex server won't be able to get out. Should I vlan the cameras and only allow them to access the blue iris computer or is there a better way to do this?
Let me know if this is the correct place to post this.
Thanks!
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@smaynksta said in Looking for some recommendations on setup and routing.:
I don't want the IP cameras Calling home but if I Vlan the cameras and the computer together the plex server won't be able to get out.
Huh?? Why would you think that?
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@johnpoz If I block the internet to the computer plex wouldn't be accessible externally. also, I forgot to say I have a Drobo that has all the media on the network that the plex server would have to pull from.
I'm also new to setting up firewall rules and VLANs so I probably not understanding it correctly.
Thanks for the reply
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Well yeah if plex is running on the computer you want block that is a bit of an issue.. Run plex in docker or vm on this machine. Then you could give plex access to internet but not the host machine. But seems pretty crazy to want to block the machine your running plex on from using the internet? At a loss to why you would want to do this? Just use the machine for plex, if your not going to use the internet on it for browsing, etc.
As to devices on multiple vlans - why would you think they wouldn't be able to talk to each other? Makes not sense.. You could if you wanted to block them from talking to each other - the advantage of vlans. But you can also allow them to talk on whatever ports you want, etc..
None of my roku players on the same vlan as my plex..
You understand you can allow IP A on vlan X access to internet or specific things on the internet, while IP B on same vlan does not right?
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@johnpoz I'm not trying to block plex it's just installed on the same computer that blue iris is running on.
I have never really messed with Docker or VMs
I have tried messing with allowing a device on one VLAN to talk to a device on another VLAN but it wasn't working. I'm sure I was doing something wrong.
Do you think the best/easiest route would be to have the plex/blue iris computer on the "Home" VLAN and set up all the cameras on the "ipcamera" VLAN and only let the "ipcamera" VLAN talk to the Plex/blue iris machine IP?
That's what I was going to try but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going about it the wrong way and end up having to redo everything a different way later.
