David, I don't have a single switch big enough to support all of the devices that I currently have on the network. The routers help with that by providing extra ports to connect devices with. The BEFSR41 is set up essentially as a switch (DHCP disabled) so that it can be used to extend the network further. My reasoning for the multiple interfaces was that I was expecting it to work somewhat like the Linksys boxes, where each port is assigned from the same address pool. I thought maybe there would be a way to do this in pfSense, so that's why I came here to ask more experienced users.
Mehma, The modem does DHCP to forward the WAN information to the pfSense box. pfSense provides DHCP on the LAN (10.1.1.100-250), OPT1(10.1.2.100-250), and OPT2 (10.1.3.100-250) interfaces. Yes, one of the machines (10.1.2.246) runs Samba to share files across the network. However, it does not jump over the subnets, so I am forced to use tools like WinSCP to get files from that machine. The print server, or rather the machine that hosts the printer, is wireless through the 192.168.1.1 router. My eventual goal is to have the network completely on one subnet ( 10.1.1.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24), so that these machines can all cooperate with each other. I'm just not sure how I would go about accomplishing this task at the moment.
