pfsense firewall & DHCP server with OpenWrt wifi and with non-ethernet OpenWrt Access Points
Hello,
So I have a pfsense firewall taking care of DHCP of the whole network, this has an OpenWrt wifi (bridged) connected by ethernet. Now I want a seamless single wifi network with 2 other OpenWrt Access Points, without connecting the Access points with ethernet.
Complete noob question, I need help configuring, help with direction. Does OpenWrt need to control DHCP for controlling Access Points?
I have watched this and consider it an option:
The pfsense is taking care of more than just what the wifi is doing (NAS, separate networks etc)
3 x DLink M32 wifi devices running OpenWrt. These devices are sold as a mesh, which is what I am trying to achieve here, but more control via using OpenWrt. I understand the term mesh may not be what I will get. Perhaps a daisy chain of APs on the same wifi? Or all directly accessing the one main AP.
I have different nodes but similiar solution with pfsense. I attached main Deco to a switch managed by pfsense and the other decos connect through 5Ghz mesh and internet works good and have dhcp, firewall and dns disabled on my nodes.
Mesh, in the technical sense of the word (and not the marketing buzzword bingo) is only necessary if:
your APs/ repeaters move around regularly or come and go unexpectedly
you are in a situation with 5+ repeaters and heavy daisy-chaining, meaning one repeater might get similar service from 2+ uplink APs and should switch to the best one dynamically
If your APs are more or less stationary, without too many levels of daisy-chaining, 4addr is both easier to set up and considerably faster. If you have (more or less) a wireless star topology between them, 4addr works best.
