Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a pfsense router/firewall at home. For the pfsense router I have the following hardware components:
Server Hardware
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
B550M Aorus Pro-P Motherboard
64 GB of DDR4
INTEL I350T4 1GbE RJ-45 Quad Port Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 74-10521-01
Samsung 980 SSD 250GB
Network Hardware
Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Pro PoE 24-Port Gigabit Managed PoE Network Switch with SFP+
Ubiquiti Networks UAP-AC-PRO-US
Originally I was going to run pfsense as virtual machine so I could use the server to run a few other things. Then I saw a video from Tom on Lawrence Systems YouTube talking about a video series here on Level1 about the forbidden router. So, after watching the first episode I decided just to run pfsense on the bare metal server.
I will want to create VLANs. So, my initial question is what would be the best approach to setting them up. Should I configure VLANs within Intel I350T4 adapter on the pfsense router or within the Ubiquiti switch?
I assume the server should be able to handle pfsense plugins for packet inspection, if I so desired to do so in the future? Thanks.
Regards,
Mark