Second WAN on an SG-2100
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Would I follow these instructions for the second WAN port? To the letter but changing relevant values to the LAN2 physical port? If it matters, I have already separated out LAN4 to be a separate physical LAN from the main LAN.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/switch-overview.html
Many thanks
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@orangehand Yes you can repeat that for other ports and do what you wish with them.
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@steveits I suppose you also need a default route by creating a new gateway in the routing settings?
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@mcury The WAN2 connection will need a gateway yes.
docs, with a bunch of info on failover, config, etc. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/multiwan/index.html. Probably want a Gateway Group, for example.
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Thanks chaps!
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For the parent interface for a second WAN do I use mvneta wan or lan? (I so wish I understood what the hell this is all about!!)
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I started configuring this but gave up as I really don't have any comprehension of some of the steps.
So for instance, in the screenshot from the official guide, what does 4 and 5 refer to? The 2100 has 6 physical ports: SFP (WAN) RJ45 (WAN) then 4 more RJ45 LAN ports. If the port numbering is 1-6 then how come when I used LAN4 for a second LAN the port number is 4 and not 6? Is 5 some virtual port? I'm utterly bewildered!
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@orangehand
Port 4 is the LAN 4 port.
Port 5 is the uplink, it's not a physical port, it's the uplink from the SG-2100 internal switch to the SOC. -
@orangehand The parent interface is mvneta1; see step 6 in the instructions.
In addition to what mcury said the switch has 4 ports. When you're configuring the switch it's only dealing with those 4 ports not the others. See the picture for the 3100 in the upper right on this post, the 2100 is the same idea.