New Install / New User: Transparant Bridge
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My non-pfSense home configuration is very simple:
ISP Modem (no config access)
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ASUS WiFi Router- PPoE login / dynamic ISP IP
- Acts as Gateway on 192.168.1.2
- DNS set to 9.9.9.9
- Port Forwarding
- DHCP with some fixed assignments
- ASUS Ai Protection - simple/free IPS & web filtering
- WiFi & Guest WiFi & wired LAN
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Switch for additional connectionsIf I configure pfSense as the Gateway, and the ASUS reverts to an access point setup, I will lose all the funtionality except the WiFi & LAN - which I don't want to do as it seems like a lot to get right first time around; and I also wouldn't mind keeping the Ai Protection as another layer.
So, I "think" what I want to do is keep everything as it is, but insert the pfSense between the Modem and Gateway - which in turn I "think" is decribed as a transparent bridge - so I can add the GeoFencing (pfBlockerNG) and SNORT without changing anything else and all my devices are behind the new pfSense firewall.
I would really appreciate any guidance on:
i. Is this actually valid / workable at all
ii. If so, how do I go about this with a brand new setup (unboxing a PC Engines today) - for example defining the WAN side of the pfSense - as it doesn't have a known IP which the turorials I have managed to find seem to assume is known/fixed.Thank you.
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Traffic between the modem and Asus router there is all inside PPPoE apart from traffic to the modem itself. So that's probably not what you want to do. pfSense would not 'see' most of that traffic.
pfSense as the gateway and Asus as an access point is the way to go there.
Steve
