Hi, I’m new to this topic and I’m planning on building my own home lab. I want to build one server with proxmox and pfsense in a VM. Do I need a multiport network card or is the single port on the motherboard sufficient for creating VLANs?

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    11 months ago

    It also depends on how much traffic/performance you expect out of the network.

    Running on a single gigabit port will limit to a max performance of 1gbps.

    Unless you have gigabit internet, it shouldn’t be that big of a bottleneck, but it all depends on the use case…

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    11 months ago

    Just one thing to note since you said your new. I know a lot of folks like to run pfsense in a seperate device than their main server as, everytime you need to reboot you lose the whole network. Those little mini pc’s are recommened as a low cost option.

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      11 months ago

      Good point, thank you! The device is intended to be a Nas and then I want to try additional things. I also have some smarthome devices which I wanted to put in a separate vlan. Putting pfsense also on that device actually doesn’t seem to be the best idea.

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        11 months ago

        No problem those little pc’s cant remember the term, you can get an additional nic in them and make them dual nic devices.

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    11 months ago

    Not all NICs are VLAN capable AFAIK.

    But as another Redditor mentioned, being new to this and virtualising your only/main router sounds like a headache waiting to happen.