Odd Setup
Good afternoon Firewalla Community Members. I have an odd setup and wanted to get your opinion on how this would work, and any suggestions. Here is the current setup before adding in a Firewalla Gold.
Starlink -> Router (A) -> TP-Link Pharos Dish (Router B)
That dish (Router B) is the "Router" for two different Antenna's
A1 = Barn
A2 = House
Router (A) serves as the Main Router that Starlink is connected to and has its own subnet and clients it serves. Router B (TP-Link Antenna) is the Router that serves A1 and A2. But A1 and A2 are on the Same Subnet and communicate back and forth via Router B. I would like to put the Firewalla in place at A2 that will serve as the router for Sites A1 & A2 but still need to access both....
I know the ideal location for the Firewalla would be in place before Router B .... but I'm not sure that will be possible. Another reason for wanting it at site A2 is there is a long Cat6 cable that runs between the house and barn (but because the distance between the two is beyond the length a Cat6 should run without a switch/repeater in-between, the connection degrades to a 10/100. This cable stays unconnected unless antenna A2 goes down, it can be manually plugged in to regain access to the internet via A1) I would like to potentially use site A1 as the gateway for the devices at site A2 if the A2 antenna goes down (like a failover).
Here is a (basic) diagram of the current setup
What are your thoughts? Will placing the Firewalla at site A2 work? Or should I give up and attempt to push and have it before Router B?
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I know Router A would be the ideal location but that is not possible. I wanted to see if there was a way to make it work at Dish A2 and would provide coverage for devices in Dish A1 and Dish A2. I don't think so, but wanted to see if anyone else had some idea I wasn't thinking. I know the second best place to put it would be between Router A and Router B and adjust the configuration on Router B to just be a AP and not a Router and let the Firewalla be the Router. I know it's a Double NAT then, but I am not able to replace Router A.
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You can put the firewalla unit behind Router A, either double NAT or run firewalla in bridge mode. See here https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500012304202-Firewalla-Transparent-Bridge-Mode
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@Chris the cable was the first attempt .... it was just for a couple of cameras out there so it didn't "need" to be gigabit .... but now things have changed. I have three of these (Picture attached) set up. One as the "Main" router (Router B in the diagram above) and 2 as "Clients" which all communicate together as one big network. The "Temporary" cable stays unplugged unless the "Dish A2" goes down for some reason (like clipping the cord with a trimmer). Then I just unplug the "Dish A2" and plug that Temporary Line back in and all Internet Traffic resumes. I didn't think the setup I had pictured in my head would work, but wanted to ask to see if anyone else had any suggestions to get it to work.....
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