Continuing to use hardwired Synology mesh network with pfSense?
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Hey everyone, so I was recently at the Pros v. Joes CTF at BSides in Vegas (my team won, yay!) and realized I need to understand pfSense better for the future. I have an existing Synology 2600ac router, with (2) Synology MR2200ac mesh routers. I've installed pfSense on a mini PC, and got to the point where it says to connect the WAN and had to push pause as I realized I got slightly ahead of myself. My mesh routers are hardwired (one goes all the way out to my pole barn, through 2 switches.) Would connecting pfSense be as simple as connecting the modem to one of the ethernet ports on my pfSense box, then connecting the pfSense (via ethernet) to one of the LAN ports on my existing main Synology 2600ac router, and expecting that the downstream mesh routers should still work fine? Despite being on the team winning the CTF, I was in no way doing the pfSense/firewall part, so I am not versed in this very much -- I was hunting rogue processes, subprocesses, disabling the script they had which created about 1,500+ admin users, etc. for 2 days (the red team had weeks in the systems before the CTF.)
In addition, I've had weird little finicky things happen with the mesh router in my pole barn before. For example, when I've had to reset the mesh router in the pole barn, I have had to physically bring it back inside, connect it directly (not through the 2 switches) to the main router, and then re-link it back up. Once I do that, I can bring it back out to the pole barn, connect the ethernet up (which has gone through 2 switches to get there) and then it works fine. I'm worried that this finicky part may get screwed up on my part with the addition of the pfSense box. Is this an unjustified concern?
I appreciate any help.
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