Subnet or VLAN ?
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Hi,
New user, first post.I'm setting up a home network with pfsense on a 4 port appliance (much like a Protectli FW4C) and a 16 port managed switch. I plan on using VLANs for guest networks, IOT's, etc.
My question is, I have an OOMA telo (VoIP). Is there any benefit to configuring it on a separate subnet directly off of the appliance vs a separate VLAN on the switch ? I'm just curious about this one because I rarely access it's interface, it just sit's there and routes voice.
Thanks for all the help !
Victor -
@vpittman No benefit but why waste a physical interface for it.
Just put it on your IoT vlan. -
Yeah if it was moving a lot of traffic there might be some advantage to moving that off the VLAN trunk but VoIP really isn't much.
If the VLAN truck is ever fully saturated that might affect the VoIP quality.Steve
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Thanks for the reply's
That's kinda what I was thinking, but I'm not doing anything with that port anyway. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
Thanks again for all the help
Victor -
@vpittman yeah voice shouldn't be an issue unless your putting it on a physical interface that is routing a lot of other vlan traffic as @stephenw10 mentions.
It's normally good practice to put vlans that do a lot of intervlan traffic on different physical interfaces.. you wouldn't normally want vlan X that talks to vlan Y and moves a lot of data between them on the same physical if possible. So you might put X on nic1 and Y on nic2, etc.
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Yeah, it probably doesn't matter.
But if you have the ports and no other use you certainly could put it on another interface.
I would probably use a LAGG to the switch with two of the NICs. You're unlikely to ever saturate both links.
Steve
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Thanks Steve, I'll look into that
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One other thing is with a VLAN, you could give VoIP priority over other traffic. However, that's not much of an issue these days, with Gb switches.
