Our home network is made kind of... stupidly, but I couldn't think of any better way back then, and I still don't. I'm not a networking guy after all.
The major shortcoming is the damn virtualized server that runs pfSense in a VM, so obviously, when it goes down, everything stops working. Also when I need to take the server down to do whatever, there's no internet. I do have a router as a backup, but then there's the problem of weird choice of IP addresses.
There's a managed switch with static 192.168.0.2 address and 255.255.252.0 mask (which if I understand correctly lets me use a few subnets, I forgot the details).
The ESXi server is 192.168.2.1, and most non-computers (like printers, UPS, media player etc.) are in the 2.x range as well.
pfSense is 192.168.0.1.
DHCP range for LAN is 192.168.1.x, and there's also 4.x for wifi.
The more I look at it the less it makes any damn sense despite there being a concept.
One of the problems I repeatedly faced was losing access to all network when the server was down (or taken down) and I somehow couldn't connect to the switch anymore. I guess it has something to do with the default IPs when windows cannot connect to DHCP or something.
Can I get any recommendations what to change and why?
The major shortcoming is the damn virtualized server that runs pfSense in a VM, so obviously, when it goes down, everything stops working. Also when I need to take the server down to do whatever, there's no internet. I do have a router as a backup, but then there's the problem of weird choice of IP addresses.
There's a managed switch with static 192.168.0.2 address and 255.255.252.0 mask (which if I understand correctly lets me use a few subnets, I forgot the details).
The ESXi server is 192.168.2.1, and most non-computers (like printers, UPS, media player etc.) are in the 2.x range as well.
pfSense is 192.168.0.1.
DHCP range for LAN is 192.168.1.x, and there's also 4.x for wifi.
The more I look at it the less it makes any damn sense despite there being a concept.
One of the problems I repeatedly faced was losing access to all network when the server was down (or taken down) and I somehow couldn't connect to the switch anymore. I guess it has something to do with the default IPs when windows cannot connect to DHCP or something.
Can I get any recommendations what to change and why?