Cool, that’s exactly what my plan is currently. I will eventually run all the cables but I want to drop in this firewall and start learning it in the meantime.
I may even go the route of some managed switches and WANs that do support multiple SSIDs on different VLANs, but first I want to get comfortable with my new single network.
That is what I have been planning per my other comments.
Modem to WAN port of firewall, LAN port of firewall to wireless router in AP mode, other lan ports to other devices?
Could you please explain in more detail? The goal is to plug my firewall directly in, as I understand it.
Worst case I’ll just use the 4 LAN ports on the TPLink and leave the WAN on the TPLink unused
That would be great, and if the WAN port becomes a LAN port, even better. I don’t see anything about that in the manual, but I’ll cross my fingers
Sopuli seems to be down, so responding from a different account.
Yeah, it’s actually that there isn’t power for the Celeron box where all the other Ethernet currently is.
Just so I’m understanding, why would all traffic need to go to my router (do you mean the opnsense one or the tplink one) twice? Wouldn’t it go Device -> Switch -> opnsense -> modem > internet? Or for my intranet communications, Device1 -> switch -> opnsense -> switch -> device2
Just wanted to update everyone that the wireless router does turn into a 5 port unmanaged switch when changed to AP mode, and that the topology of Modem -> AP’s WAN (this is now a Lan port because it’s a switch) -> devices is working great!