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    Bridge Mode and wifi

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      1976dan
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      Hi guys

      I have a netgear router which I was going to put into bridge mode and have my pfsense box doing all the work.

      One thing I don't have is a WiFi card on my pfsense box
      But the router I am turning into a bridge does.

      Now is it possible to have the router in bridge mode but still use it as a WiFi .

      Or have i got it all wrong

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        phil.davis
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        If pfSense WAN is now directly doing your connection to the ISP, then use the old NetGear device on the LAN as an ordinary WiFi AP. Switch off DHCP on it, plug one of the NetGear LAN ports into your LAN switch (connecting it to pfSense LAN interface), give the NetGear LAN side an IP address in the pfSense LAN so you can reach and manage it, set up the WiFi SSID/password… on it.
        No need to mess with "bridge" settings on the NetGear - it will still think it is also a router, with its own WAN port. But nothing will ever send it packets to be routed, so its routing function will just sit there bored.

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