So, in my own setup at home, I had alot of physical stuff.<\/p>\n
I had 1 x PC with PFSense, and that had 3 x NICs.
\nThen I have 1 x NAS server with a few drives in it, running FreeNAS.
\nAnd a VMWare host runing ESXi, for small projects.<\/p>\n
So I took the PFsense and put it on the ESXi host, which got rid of some of the hardware I had to have sitting around, but this created a problem on its own.<\/p>\n
I have 2 x ADSL routers, and I need to do a PPPOE out of each.
\nI have to dial out of each, and try to separate them somehow, so that PFSense doesn’t do 2 x PPPOE connections through the same router.<\/p>\n
And after a weekend of Googling, blood, tears, etc, I got it right.<\/p>\n
In VSphere, I created a VLAN for the WAN interface the PFSense box will use, and added this to VLAN 4095, so it was able to be in whatever VLAN it wanted.<\/p>\n
Then I was able to create 2 VLAN interfaces inside PFSense. VLAN 2 and VLAN 3.
\nThese were then set-up on my managed switch, and I added with ports of the ADSL routers to this VLAN, so that they were able to talk to VLAN 2 and 3 respectively.<\/p>\n
This seemed to work, and the PFSense was now able to talk to the Router in if own VLAN.<\/p>\n
Then in PFSense, we just added the PPPOE and told it to dial over the VLAN, so that it wouldn’t get mixed up with the other modem, and boom. Done!<\/p>\n
The most complicated part was trying to work out how to setup my managed switch, its VLAN setup confused me with its tagging setup etc, but I was eventually able to figure it out, and it all works in pure harmony \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, in my own setup at home, I had alot of physical stuff. I had 1 x PC with PFSense, and that had 3 x NICs. Then I have 1 x NAS server with a few drives in it, running FreeNAS. And a VMWare host runing ESXi, for small projects. So I took the PFsense … Continue reading VLAN much?<\/span>