Setting up VLANs in pfSense

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[DodgeHooker]

Please do more pfSense videos!
How about a video about firewall rules to segment IoT from other devices and to prevent IoT stuff from "phoning home"

[NightHawkATL]

Perfect explanation to VLANs! I use aliases on my servers & IoT VLAN so that I have to provide an IP in the alias to allow it to have access to anything. That way, if anything happens and some one gets access to my proxmox server or anything on it, just any DHCP address cannot get out to the internet. I also use Pihole for all of my VLANs except the server VLAN so that a lot of traffic is blocked on the other networks and especially the IoT VLAN.

[ericksondesigns]

This VLAN walk-through is awesome. I appreciate all the insight and your teaching method.

[James_Knott]

One point about the VLAN subnet. You said to use private addresses. While that's likely true for IPv4, with IPv6 you may very well have public addresses you can use. For example, I get a /56 prefix from my ISP. This gives me up to 256 /64 prefixes, any of which can be used for any LAN or VLAN interface. In addition, it's possible to use private address too. On IPv6, they're called Unique Local Addresses (ULA), which can be used in the same manner as RFC1918 addresses on IPv4. Also, there are some situations where you want to be able to access one subnet from another. For example, my main LAN can access anything on my guest WiFi VLAN, but not the other way around.

[zackwalker]

Thanks for the videos! You’re one of the few YouTubers in this space that has a personality and you’re very entertaining to watch. Even if I’ve seen some LSU stuff in some of your videos, you’re not that bad ;)

[alexfischer]

I just bought a managed switch for my setup. Thanks for the well timed tutorial!

[RKGraves]

Nicely done video & Very Informative. Thank You!

[Pichon-wcwg]

Very good tutorial. Concise, no fluff, straight to the point. Well done.

[skynetpostmaster]

Video helped me a lot to achieve setup what I wanted. Keep it going!

[RichardSwift]

I've come back to this video a couple times. Great resource. thanks!

[bopal]

Many thanks. Exactly what I needed to create separate network for noisy IOT devices

[lettersteve]

Oh man this is super well explained. Thanks so much.

[cbaservs]

took me a while to figure out vlans but this one video does tick all boxes for me. thank you!

[AntonisAsc]

Great video! Thank you for the explanation

[ZephyrDogma]

How do I put my linux machine in a vlan, please I need to know how have to present a work in college Monday

[skyzestory]

Man, you help me A
Iwas blocked around like 30 days on a problem, I'm using pfsense too and my VLAN cannot reach my LAN and with ur video I understand why now!

Thanks a lot bro!

[SilentMajority]

I'm late to this party, but MAN!! I thank you. This was the slow breakdown I needed.

[ana]

Thanks for the walkthrough, wonderfully explained!
Am I correct in assuming that without a managed switch, this setup is not feasible?
My current setup involves a pfsense, & a primitive, ISP provided wireless AP among other things. This AP probably cannot differentiate between one or more VLANs...

[DaleCunningham_DBA]

Thank you for such a great walk through... Some of the fields are now named differently because of the updates to PF Sense.. Can you throw up some text updates on top of the video to account for the mismatch of selection settings..?

[brunosolothurnmann]

Thank you - I have VLANs implemented and they are correct as proved in your video. They do what the firewall is letting them. The problem I have with active VLANs, and could not find any solution, is on adding Zenarmor pfsense. As soon as I activate in Zenarmor the Interface where I have VLANs on, I can't reach any device on the VLANs. The other interfaces provide no problems. The same problem I had before when I was trying to have dual wan with failover in pfSense implemented. Any hint?