Naive question time,
I've been trying to wrap my head around the various configurations - pros/cons.
I have an 24 port layer 2 switch and have been slowly working my way towards a pfsense router with default, DMZ, home, work, lab vlans.
Actual bandwidth from the wan is ~150Mbits and the lan is gigabit.
What are the pros/cons of configuring my firewall/router on a stick?
- Is the risk one of MAC Spoofing?
- Bandwidth bottlenecking?
As I understand it my switch handles ethernet traffic within vlans by MAC address,
The router moves traffic between vlans at layer 3 by IP address.
In my home environment I have the ability to plug everything I run into a single switch and it can currently handle all the bandwidth I am sending it a daily basis.
I've been looking at a little J1900 to serve as pfsense router or a use i5 sff box for half the price and twice the watts. I haven't been able to decide why I would choose a multi-nic router over a single nic router.
Thanks
Robert
I've been trying to wrap my head around the various configurations - pros/cons.
I have an 24 port layer 2 switch and have been slowly working my way towards a pfsense router with default, DMZ, home, work, lab vlans.
Actual bandwidth from the wan is ~150Mbits and the lan is gigabit.
What are the pros/cons of configuring my firewall/router on a stick?
- Is the risk one of MAC Spoofing?
- Bandwidth bottlenecking?
As I understand it my switch handles ethernet traffic within vlans by MAC address,
The router moves traffic between vlans at layer 3 by IP address.
In my home environment I have the ability to plug everything I run into a single switch and it can currently handle all the bandwidth I am sending it a daily basis.
I've been looking at a little J1900 to serve as pfsense router or a use i5 sff box for half the price and twice the watts. I haven't been able to decide why I would choose a multi-nic router over a single nic router.
Thanks
Robert