VLAN on pFsense or Switch

Networking & Firewalls
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Hi

My firewall device has 4 x Gigabit ports as well as an older HPE5130 managed PoE switch.

Should I create VLAN’s on pFsense or just create different interfaces and create the VLAN’s on the switch?

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I prefer to trunk the connection, in both senses of the word.

I.e., create a link aggregation with 2 or more ports and then use VLANs over that. That way, if an individual link fails, the connection between the router and switch is still operational.

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I prefer trunk port to the switch and then configure the switch ports to the proper VLAN

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I’ve something similar, on the router I’d keep it as WAN, LAN and the other two in LAGG to the switch for your vlans. Generally I just use the LAN as an emergency access directly to the router if I balls something up.

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