Pfsense and Google Wifi as access point
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Hi!
I’ve recently installed pfsense on my own hardware and I’m trying to use my existing Google Wifi nodes as my wifi until I can change them for better hardware.
My issue is however that I can’t put my Google Wifi nodes in bridge mode and it doesn’t seem that the nodes are getting any IP.
I’ve tried searching but all posts seem to indicate that it is easy to put the nodes in bridge mode but I fail miserably. The help section on Google doesn’t provide any guidance.
Does anyone know how I should connect nodes to pfsense? At the moment I have my pfsense connected to the wall jack. Then from my pfsense lan jack, it is connected to a unifi switch and then to the google wifi node without luck. It is perhaps worth mentioning that it doesn’t work if I connect the node directly to the lan jack on the pfsense box.
Does anyone know anything that might help?
Thanks!
//Muppie
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I assume other devices connected to the switch do pull an IP and are able to connect out OK?
That sounds like it's all in the Google WIFI setup. There's probably not much pfSense can do there. If we know what the WIFI device is expecting to be connected to we can try to match that to something in pfSense maybe.
Steve
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What hardware are you running pfsense on (ie do you have wan port, lan port, and additional opt ports)?
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Hi!
Many thanks for the replies.It turns out that there were some errors with my switch. However, I never managed to put the google nodes in bridge mode so I gave up and bought a uniquiti access point and installed.
//Andreas
