Setting up a new pfsense router/firewall and UniFi Pro PoE 24-Port Gigabit switch

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

Packet inspection probably won’t be an issue, depends on how much throughput is going through pfsense.

For VLANs, it’s going to be both. You need to define the VLAN on the switch and you’ll need to configure VLANs on the pfsense side.