Starting off on the right foot - MB8600-SG3100-RBR50 devices
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I just received my SG3100 and before I start configuring it and inserting it into my setup I want to be sure I take the right path.
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I have a Motorola MB8600 Modem. It's set for Bridge Mode by default. The default IP address is 192.168.100.1
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I have a Netgear RBR50 Mesh Router and Satellite that assigns all of the IP address for the 25 devices in my setup. Those are all in the 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.255 range. 6 of the devices have static IP addresses and I'd really like to keep them that way.
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The SG3100 will get installed between the MB8600 and the RBR50. I see that its default address is 192.168.1.1/24 and I would access the initial setup at that address.
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So, before I launch into the setup and configuration and after a bit of research that didn't provide a clear answer:
How do I configure things so that can keep the 10.X.X.X addresses assigned by the RBR50 and still be able to reach the SG3100 for additional configuration as I be come more familiar with Pfsense?
Thanks in advance.
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The best way to do this would be to have the modem (in bridge mode) passing a public IP to the pfSense WAN directly. Then have the SG-3100 passing DHCP leases to LAN side clients with the RBR50 acting only as a wireless access point.
If that's not possible you may be able to disable NAT on the RBR50 and add a statuc route to pfSense for 10.0.0.0/24 via the RBR50 WAN.
If that's not possible you would have to double NAT with both routers firewalling and NATing the traffic.
In either of the latter setups you can keep the default LAN subnet or change it to something unused. In the first setup you would change it to 10.0.0.0/24.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Thanks. I ended up just going with 192.X.X.2 - 192.X.X.199 addresses in the pool, using the RBR50 as an Access Point and assigning some static IPs above the range of the pool.
