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:

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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.