I’m in the process of re-designing my home network. Currently it’s a single /24 network. I’m wanting to implement a number of VLANs (at least 3 initially).
I have pfSense running on an ESXi host. I have 2x 4-port Intel NICs passed through directly to the VM (I’m not using virtual swiches for pfSense).
The question I have is, would I be better off creating one big 4-port LAG for all LAN traffic (in order to load balance traffic between VLANs which might see high utilisation), or assign one physical 1 Gbit port per VLAN? What would be the pros and cons of doing it either way?
For example, one VLAN will be used for local-only traffic (no internet access) and realistically it would mostly contain printers and other legacy devices. A 1 Gig port would be overkill for this VLAN as the utilisation will be very low.
I do also plan on upgrading to 10 Gbit at some point in the future.