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    Make the wifi access points part of the LAN

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    • N
      nujiel
      last edited by

      Hi everyone!
      I've got 2 routers provided by the ISP, each having its own access to the web and I wanted to take advantage of them with pfsense. So I put my LAN behind pfsense that does load balancing and failover. So far everything is good the only problem is that the 2 routers are also the access point for laptops which need to be part of the LAN and I also want them to pass through pfsense for the load balancing feature.
      I was thinking of buying and putting an access point behind pfsense but is there a another way to do it?

      Thanks for any help you can give me

      PS: Sorry for my English

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
        last edited by

        Are your two routers handling DHCP requests from the wireless devices?
        A (really hackish) solution would be:

        • Disable DHCP on the access-points,
        • Connect the LAN part of the pfSense to the access points

        The resulting setup would look like this:
        (i assume the WLAN and the LAN part on the modems is bridged)

        
        x.x.x.x                        y.y.y.y
          WAN                            WAN
        Modem1 WLAN                     Modem2 WLAN
          LAN(192.168.1.1)               LAN(192.168.1.2)
           |                              |
           |---------------switch---------|
                           |    |
             (192.168.1.3)WAN  LAN(10.0.0.1)
                          pfSense 
        
        

        All clients would be in the 10.0.0.x subnet
        The gateways for modem1 and modem2 would have to be added manually on the pfSense

        This isn't a proper solution but should work.

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          nujiel
          last edited by

          Ok I see, looks a bit unsecure.I think the best way would be to add an wifi access card to pfsense and mananage the wifi and dhcp from there.
          Thanks you help me clarify some things

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