standalone zoneflex 7372 - private / public wifi - pfsense firewall - cisco catyalst 3560 switch

unknown

just got my first ruckus access point ZF7372, would like to set up private wifi for family, and public wifi for guests. 

    have Dell Poweredge 2950 Dual Xeon 5160 3GHz 8GB running pfSense Firewall 
with 6 x gigabit NICs and cisco catyalst 3560 switch. 

any suggestions how to accomplish this?  what is best practices on connecting the ZF7372 to the network and separating the public/private wifis,   im assuming vlans set up in the switch, in the access point/ssids, and pfsense? kind of new to all this, eager to learn. 

current setup is  cable modem>pfsense wan>switch>ZF7372 
switch  is setup all ports vlan 1 default

does the standalone ap get trunked to the switch?
does the pfsense router get trunked to the switch?

dionis_taveras

Patrick, congratulations on your Ruckus AP. The configuration is actually pretty straight forward amd simple. In your pfsense create two virtual interfaces for vlans. IP them accordingly and make one your guest and one private. Pass those VLANs onto the switch. The port configured for the AP, make that a trunk port. Pass the native VLAN and make that the VLAN that will give the AP it's IP address, this may be the private network VLAN if you want to make your life easier. Then allow both, the VLANs for guest and for private on this port plus the native one if different to pss on this trunk port.



That's it, your infrastructure is built. Now, you can move on to configure the AP, that's pretty straight forward. When it gets to the point of assigning a VLAN to the WLAN area, select the VLAN you created for guess and private and apply them to it's corresponding WLAN.



Don't forget to secure your private network by preventing access to it from the guess network and to create your dhcp pools for each subnet on the pfsense.



Hope this helps.