Ipfire as Access point

Networking
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Hi there.

I’m trying to figure out if I can turn an IPFIRE APU box as cabled access point/range extender. I have a LAN cable available and thought to use the BLUE and GREEN interface bridged and with dynamic DHCP.

I tried and unfortunately

  1. the system doesnt pass the DHCP to any device connected to the ipfire box
  2. if I set my device (laptop) with manual IP to match the home network it will still connect and browse ipfire management pages but won’t be able to surf the network.

I also though to use the red zone for the cable (line in) and blue/Green Zone as usual to broadcast but with my ipfire knowledge and understanding this will create a separate trunk of network which I’d like to avoid.

Have anybody experienced something similar?

Thanks in advance

2

Not sure if this is possible.
But. I would try.
Run setup unassign green nic.
The from WUI.
Bridge unassigned nic to blue.
May not be possible?

3

I would not use IPFire for this. Openwrt might be a better choice.

4

Hi there,

thanks for such quick answer. I felt won’t work but worth try.

I know openwrt and I was trying not to flatten the actual ipfire machine…

Cheers

5

you could just change the ssd. You can always put back IPFire this way. If you mod the case, you can also use the sata port and have a sort of dual boot.

6

This is what I was thinking.

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Interesting question Mauro,

is your “DHCP enabled” unchecked in the WUI-Network-DHCP?

I wonder if in the Firewall Options: this has to be turned OFF?

Firewall options for BLUE interface
Drop all packets not addressed to proxy

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HI @trish ,

yes, I disabled the DHCP server on BLUE interface.

I believe there will be some FW settings in FORWARD table at least…I did not take any deep look at the iptable.

I might try to swap SSD as suggested by @cfusco

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