Should I route my storage vlan?

Networking & Firewalls
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General question.

I have my standard LAN running at 1gig (unifi switches) across my home, I also added a MicroTek 10gig switch and want to know if I should route for it or not. Currently, I have a VLAN for it set up in pfsense. The 10gig switch is running off a truck from my gig switch and via vlans I push out the 10gig network as needed.

So, should the 10gig be flat (no router) or continue the way I am currently running? I don’t really care about the storage devices having internet access, I am more concerned about performance.

Also, this is my first post! Happy to be here!

bp

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No need to route storage network, just keep it on it’s own VLAN that you define in the switch, no need to define it in the pfsense.

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Thanks Tom, so just sorta fake the VLAN id? In my case, just make up a non-used VLAN id, add it to the switch, and just set up statics with the same subnet mask but no gateway?

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yes, but technically it’s not fake, it is just not used in pfsense :slight_smile:

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Fair enough. Thanks!

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All set. :raised_hands: