Hello Patrick.
Thank you for taking time to answer my doubts.
After your explanation about STP, I found out that I had an older cable that doubled the connection between my firewall and my Switch in the office. STP was the reason why I lost the connection when I connected all cables in my firewall. Sorry about my distraction.
As for the reason that I use all my firewall ports as a bridge (all except one that is the WAN) is because I need all of them to connect to my network devices in my living room.
In my house, my internet access enters in my living room. My Internet router is configured as a bridge and connects to my opnsense WAN port. The remaining lan ports, configured as bridge, connect to my TV, to my main mesh access point and to my office Switch. In my office Switch I have my home PC, my NAS, my secondary mesh access point and my sons PC.
Is there any other way to configure my opnsense to allow all this connections? Or is this the best way?
Thank you, once again, for your help.
Nuno Lopes
Thank you for taking time to answer my doubts.
After your explanation about STP, I found out that I had an older cable that doubled the connection between my firewall and my Switch in the office. STP was the reason why I lost the connection when I connected all cables in my firewall. Sorry about my distraction.
As for the reason that I use all my firewall ports as a bridge (all except one that is the WAN) is because I need all of them to connect to my network devices in my living room.
In my house, my internet access enters in my living room. My Internet router is configured as a bridge and connects to my opnsense WAN port. The remaining lan ports, configured as bridge, connect to my TV, to my main mesh access point and to my office Switch. In my office Switch I have my home PC, my NAS, my secondary mesh access point and my sons PC.
Is there any other way to configure my opnsense to allow all this connections? Or is this the best way?
Thank you, once again, for your help.
Nuno Lopes