VLANsĪs I mentioned before, my plan this time around was to rely on one router (this one) to route my entire network, including home stuff, so it was time to try out OPNsense' VLAN features.įor my plan I want to have three VLANs Office, Servers and Home. As I am planning on relying solely on VLANs for my new setup I did not set up IPv4 configuration here, but if you're planning on just having one, VLAN-free network, you would set IPv4 Configuration Type to Static IPv4 here most likely. You can also rename it while you're here if you like. One this is done, head on over to Interfaces » and enable the newly created interface. Now head over to Interfaces » Assignments, and add the newly created LAGG. In there I added a new configuration, combining em1, em2, em3 and em4 on my particular machine using the LACP protocol - also referred to as 802.3ad. In OPNsense, head on over to Interfaces » Other Types » LAGG.
TORGUARD PFSENSE SETUP MANUAL
Be sure to check your switch' manual to make sure it supports this before trying it out yourself. This functionality is usually only available in smart or smart-managed (aka half-smart) switches. Note: Your switch must support link aggregation functionality or this will not work. However, I do understand that with my home setup I most likely won't be able to tell the difference, but nonetheless I have the hardware available for it, and I can benefit from the learning experience of setting things up this way. I have been wanting to try out a LAGG configuration as it seems to make sense and has benefits over just relying on one port. I set up the first one as the "internet-in" port, the following four in a LAGG configuration, and the remaining port left open in case I ever need to directly plug my laptop into the router for maintenance or whatnot. The router I am using has a total of 6 NICs. If you are in a similar situation and have the ability to do so, this is a very stress-free way to do it, so I highly recommend it. As I set up more and more, I could slowly switch over individual parts until everything was done. I kept my pfSense and LG routers running while setting up the OPNsense one, just so I had the time to do this right without completely killing my home network until I finished things, so I mostly had it running separately with only my laptop plugged into it.
TORGUARD PFSENSE SETUP DOWNLOAD
All it takes is for you to download the right version, "burn" it to a USB stick, boot from it, and follow the steps. If you're at all familiar with installing most every Linux flavor, it'll be roughly the same. In case you're curious, Dotori is the romanized version of 도토리, korean for Acorn.
To be able to perform necessary upgrades to the Dell though, I need to be able to shut it down, so it's time to reinstate my router-PC-thing, which I called Dotori. Some people are wary of running a router in a virtual machine, which I cna understand, but as it was serving only my homelab anyway I did not have to worry about it too much. PfSense has been running as a virtual machine on the Dell R510, and it was working fine that way. This time I want to have one router route my entire home network, so that will be one of my goals. This was fine for my goals then, as I didn't have one router route everything. This worked fine and served my needs at the time, but I want to do this better now.Īs someone in the YouTube comments of my video pointed out too, I too had not at all done anything in pfSense's VLAN section. Using my D-Link "smart managed" router's VLAN functionality I had effectively split the network in two, with two fully separate routers handling either side. This is part one of my homelab re-organization project. Since I was very new to both this and pfSense I was struggling to figure things out in a timely fashion, and ended up going with a basic pfSense setup for my homelab and office side of the network, relying on my internet-provider-provided router for the rest of the home network. Ever since first setting up my home's network I wanted to try using OPNsense.
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