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Title: Set-up advice
Post by: Nekromantik on August 24, 2018, 05:27:05 pm

Hi all
I got a mini PC with 6 ethernet ports and a Netgear router I can use for wireless.
Is recommended set-up to use the Netgear as my wireless ap and switch and only connect to opnsense box with 1 cable to LAN port?
Thanks

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Title: Re: Set-up advice
Post by: l0rdraiden on August 24, 2018, 07:54:38 pm

Yes, what else you can do?
You can create an VLAN for you the AP, only for the wireless network.

Title: Re: Set-up advice
Post by: Nekromantik on August 24, 2018, 08:05:31 pm

Would that not mean that all routing and firewall and DHCP config would be controlled by the wireless router and not opnsense?

Title: Re: Set-up advice
Post by: l0rdraiden on August 24, 2018, 08:35:27 pm

No, because you have to configure your wireless router as an access point, so NAT, DHCP... is disabled.

Take a look to your router settings

https://www.google.es/search?q=netgear+wiress+router+as+AP&oq=netgear+wiress+router+as+AP&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4895j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Title: Re: Set-up advice
Post by: Nekromantik on August 24, 2018, 09:03:16 pm

thanks