I have a stateful firewall (pfsense) with a WAN and LAN port, with the LAN port connected to an unmanaged switch (DLink Gbit) and several computers connected to the switch.
I was wondering if the switch obeyed firewall rules, i.e. if I blocked all traffic between two computers with a rule on the firewall, would the switch still pass traffic because it is all local and doesn't go through the firewall?
The switch doesn't know anything about the rules on your firewall and the firewall can only act on traffic that flows through it. So for your local traffic through the switch, it shouldn't be affected by the firewall rules at all.
joeqwerty is correct an unmanaged switch knows nothing. It works a lower layer in the network stack which knows nothing about the firewall rules or even the ip address, port, data payload, etc of a packet. It just sends packets to their destination or next hop based on the MAC address and ARP tables.
What you need is a managed switch that supports ACLs. VLANs may also be an option depending on your goals.
