I'm totally re-doing my whole home network. I have a pfSense machine with two 10GbE ports connected to my main switch which has eight 1GbE Ethernet ports and two 10GbE Ethernet ports. The 8x1GbE ports are for each of my VLANS and the router connects with the 10GbE. Question is, do I set up the router/switch with
Option 1) both 10GbE ports from the router to the two 10GbE ports on the switch with link aggregation? or
Option 2) One 10GbE port on the router to one 10GbE port on the switch and connect the other 10GbE port on the switch to my 12 port 10GbE switch which all my servers, workstations are connected to?
Paint file attached for simplification.
Attached FileThoughts:
I don't think I'll need a trunk that consists of two 10GbE link aggregated lines. On the other hand, do any of my 10GbE connected machines need that kind of speed through the router? I have a dedicated Plex machine running FreeNAS, that it's possible I could have all friends/family watching at once needing 8 separate streams.
Thoughts?