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General Discussion / Setup 2 routers to share one internet connection
« on: April 06, 2022, 11:18:16 am »
Hi all I am a newbie and a novice to boot, so if my question is dumb or obvious to the gurus I appologise in advance. I first started out using PFsense and could not work out how to do what I want. Opnsense seems more user friendly so I thought I would give it a try.
I am using a ITX celeron motherboard with 4Gb RAM and an additional GB lan card. The mother board has 2 x Gb LAN ports built in, my wish is to route the NBN modem via the Opnsense box.
Additional LAN card as WAN and the onboard ports as LAN 1 and LAN 2 (but I get OPT1??) with different IP range and subnets.
The LAN ports I assume I would set up as DHCP conected to 2 seperate WIFI routers via the routers WAN ports.
One router is an ASUS RT-AC68U (Asuswrt-merlin) for my main network with permanent VPN (via the ASUS router) for all PC's, NAS and mobiles etc.
The second router (TP-Link D9) for Xbox, security system, guest wifi, 3D printer etc.
I can get it to a stage where the LAN port and OPT1 seem to follow the IP range of the other, I initially set up one IP range as 192.168.20.XX/24 and the other as 10.0.10.XX/16. One network comes up working but when I log into the second router the default gateway (DHCP) is the gateway for the LAN 192.x.x.x network.
I was also trying to set up the NAS with each LAN port configured for eack network, but can only access via the 192.x.x.x network.
I dont expect someone to help configure my entire network but a few pointers to guide me in the correct direction. Or an article or forum link with someone that has done this previously.
Thanks again to anyone who can answer.
I am using a ITX celeron motherboard with 4Gb RAM and an additional GB lan card. The mother board has 2 x Gb LAN ports built in, my wish is to route the NBN modem via the Opnsense box.
Additional LAN card as WAN and the onboard ports as LAN 1 and LAN 2 (but I get OPT1??) with different IP range and subnets.
The LAN ports I assume I would set up as DHCP conected to 2 seperate WIFI routers via the routers WAN ports.
One router is an ASUS RT-AC68U (Asuswrt-merlin) for my main network with permanent VPN (via the ASUS router) for all PC's, NAS and mobiles etc.
The second router (TP-Link D9) for Xbox, security system, guest wifi, 3D printer etc.
I can get it to a stage where the LAN port and OPT1 seem to follow the IP range of the other, I initially set up one IP range as 192.168.20.XX/24 and the other as 10.0.10.XX/16. One network comes up working but when I log into the second router the default gateway (DHCP) is the gateway for the LAN 192.x.x.x network.
I was also trying to set up the NAS with each LAN port configured for eack network, but can only access via the 192.x.x.x network.
I dont expect someone to help configure my entire network but a few pointers to guide me in the correct direction. Or an article or forum link with someone that has done this previously.
Thanks again to anyone who can answer.