Questions about network upgrade

[xl3b4n0nx]

Network upgrade (pfsense router + switches) to support VLANs and need confirmation before hardware purchases. For more details on what I am trying to do see below.

1. Would it be possible for me to use my existing Asus RT-AC66U router as an AP for multiple VLANs?

2. If question 1 is no, then would I be able to use this Ubiquiti AP to have a wifi SSID for each VLAN?

3. I want to have 10GbE connnection between my main PC (add-in NIC) and my server (built in NIC) and have those be the only connections to the network as well for both. I plan to get this Netgear switch which is a 10 port (8x1Gb and 2x10Gb) managed switch. I want to have both machines on the 10Gb ports with a 1Gb uplink to the pfsense router. Would a VLAN that is setup in pfsense cause the 10Gb traffic between the PC and server to leave the switch instead of going directly to the other machine?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2. Yup, they do that easily, I have done that a few times with no issue.

3. No real reason to have vlans from what you have listed. Just run the make it one big network unless you want to seprate the devices for annouther reason. The traffic will go from the pc to the switch to the server, won't touch the router(assuming its setup right, and thats the default normally)

[beersykins]

1) Probably not, most of those units aren't tagging/VLAN aware or capable.  Most consumer things just expect untagged traffic.

2) Sure bro, you can do that.

3) If you had them in separate VLANs you would need something that can route at 10gb.  If they're in the same VLAN then you would use the switch ASIC to forward traffic instead.

[xl3b4n0nx]

6 hours ago, beersykins said:

1) Probably not, most of those units aren't tagging/VLAN aware or capable.  Most consumer things just expect untagged traffic.

2) Sure bro, you can do that.

3) If you had them in separate VLANs you would need something that can route at 10gb.  If they're in the same VLAN then you would use the switch ASIC to forward traffic instead.

I figured the Asus router wasn't capable but I wanted to make sure. I am going to have them on the same VLAN so that won't matter.