Single WAN, Multi LAN, Lab Setup
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I am working on some changes to my home lab. My goal is to use multiple NICs in my pfSense box to connect to two Cisco routers.
The idea would be to then connect each router with T1 links and start messing around with routes and other stuff… blah blah blah Cisco side training/learning stuff...
Back to the point. My pfSense setup.
My pfSense server has three NICs. One for WAN and two for LAN.
Can I setup each LAN NIC with its own /16 subnet? I.E. LAN1(17.20.0.0/16) and LAN2(17.21.0.0/16)? Would this allow all pfSense services to function for both LAN connections? Including any downloaded addons (IPS/IDS, webfilter, etc)?I would then use my Cisco routers to further break down those /16s into /24s or smaller.
Am I on the right track? Or is there a better way to achieve my goal?
Have I left out any information that would be helpful?
-JF
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No problem. My current pfSense LAN is 10.10.0.0/16 and my DMZ is a 172.16.1.0/24.
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No problem with that but I don't think I would do it that way.
I might assign a /24 to one of your pfSense interfaces and put the cisco WAN ports on that, then in pfSense route, say, 10.1.0.0/16 to one and 10.2.0.0/16 to the other. Then the first could do whatever it wanted with 10.1.0-254.X and the second whatever it wanted with 10.2.0-254.X.
