How to best incorporate Linksys Velop nodes

[DominikHoffmann]

Can anyone suggest how best to incorporate a Linksys Velop constellation with a pfSense firewall without configuring the Velop nodes in bridge mode?

[DominikHoffmann]

I came up with this topology:


I also set took these configuration steps:

• set up a bridge between the interfaces corresponding to the LAN and OPT ports in Interfaces→Bridges,
• set the OPT port to have the IP address 192.168.4.1,
• set up a DHCP server for the entire 192.168.4.0/24 subnet on the interface corresponding to OPT, with 192.168.4.1 as the gateway address,
• turned on the Avahi package to route mDNS traffic between the 192.168.4.1/24 and 192.168.1.1/24 subnets,
• turned off the Velops’ DHCP server, and
• set the LAN base address to 192.168.4.2, so as to not create a conflict with the OPT port.

The second Ethernet connection on the master Velop node is purely for remote administration purposes. That’s how it communicates to the LinkSys configuration servers.