[kwlug-disc] PFSense and USB 2.0 NICs

B.S. bs27975.2 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 12:49:21 EDT 2016


On 07/11/2016 09:52 AM, Mark Steffen wrote:
> +1 for the person who comment about using VLANs.  This is what I do;
> traffic comes into PFsense from the Internets, I chop it up into VLANs and
> send it out the single GigE link on a switch port allowing various tagged
> VLANs and have the switch disperse it from there into untagged ports
> depending on the type of traffic (voip/guest LAN/internal LAN/security
> cameras) or tagged for going to the Wifi APs (internal, guest).

Did you notice any particular improvements in doing so?

e.g. Presumably the aggregate traffic isn't enough to saturate the 
physical links, or you'd still be unhappy / would be taking additional 
steps. Were you experiencing poor VoIP quality, or cameras sucking up 
all the oxygen, or ???, that segregating the traffic solved?





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