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    Pfsense as Firewall and router,dd-wrt router as AP need some help

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      fobbie last edited by

      Hi Guys,

      Im new to Pfsense and need some help.
      The reason why I have to use a wireless router is because pfsense don't have pretty good support on wireless cards, tried a TP-link and a rosewill card, none worked.

      Here is the problem,
      my service provider is ATT uverse business, 4 static IPs
      we have about 8 work station, 1 server, 1 DVR and a couple printers running off the modem/router att provides, wired and wirelessly. I guess its too much for it so we have to restart it every 3 days-5days or so.

      I have already built a machine running Pfsense with 2xGB cards, 1 wan and 1 lan.  1x100m that is on the motherboard as OPT1 for my wireless router.

      wan is directly to my att modem, lan is to a switch for all my working station,server,DVR and printers. worked perfect, using 192.168.1.1 and 255.255.255.0
      my att modem/router is 192.168.1.254
      for DD-wrt router, I really don't know how to config it.

      There are 3 wireless working station which needs to connect to the server as well

      Should I just use DHCP and AP mode on the router and everything will work?
      Or should I provide a static ip like 192.168.2.5 which is different than my PFsense?

      Please provide the best solution for this.

      Thanks in advance.

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      • stephenw10
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

        You should have your DD-wrt box setup as an access point only so:
        Disable DHCP on the dd-wrt box.
        Enable DHCP on the pfSense OPT1 interface.
        Set the dd-wrt box to a static IP in the OPT1 subnet so you can access it later.
        Connect the ethernet cable from the pfSense OPT1 interface to one of the dd-wrt LAN ports.
        Add firewall rules to the pfSense OPT1 interface to allow traffic from the wireless clients to your server.

        Steve

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