Netgate 2100 plus switches
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New to Netgate and I am building out my network. I will have a wall mounted rack with a 24 port managed switch. I plan on running Cat6 to 4 or 5 rooms in my house. I may need a small 8 port managed switch in 1 or 2 of those rooms. Will I run into problems running uplinks from my main 24 port switch to the smaller 8 port managed switches? Am I better off running those uplinks right from one of my 4 LAN ports on the Netgate?
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@kabluton
It depends on what you intend to do with everything.
I like using the LAN ports on the back of the pfSense box as separate network segments, giving distinct non overlapping IP ranges. Since working from home, I set up one for "WORK" stuff, others for home and guest. It's easier for me to manage and keep track of what's where. Also makes it easy to allow or disallow traffic between them.If you don't need that separation, then the only thing would be bandwidth. Likely that your slowest link is out of the house to the upstream ISP, but if you have 8 things running at 1G on one switch then you definitely saturate the 1G link going back to the 2100. In a real world use case, you probably won't care or see a difference, but just pointing it out.
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@mer To separate them out do I make each LAN port it's own VLAN?
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@kabluton
Yes. There is a lot of good documentation here:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/index.html