A L3 switch routes faster than a separate router with a firewall, but I guess you don’t have the firewall functionality. So if you are in need of speed regarding latency and throughput but don’t need traffic filtering, a L3 switch would be a good solution.
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Hey, I know that it’s been awhile since I’ve posted in this thread, but I ran into an odd problem due to what’s likely a misconfigured PFSense. So I noticed that my HomeLab would loose connectivity at seemingly random intervals. What I discovered in my investigation, however, is that my HomeLab’s MAC address would appear in my PFSense’s ARP table with a lease expiry showing up. However, I never turned on the DHCP server for that interface because I want the HomeLab to use a static IP. So, I theorized that every time the lease would expire is when my HomeLab would lose connectivity. As a workaround, I turned on the DHCP server and configured the DHCP server to assign a static IP to my HomeLab via its MAC address. I would still rather disable the DHCP server and give the HomeLab a true static IP, so how should I configure PFSense to do this properly?
If you have a static IP for WAN you would simply set that IP to the wan.
Oh. My homelab is connected to a LAN interface behind NAT.