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I have a small showroom and think of using Firewalla instead of Cisco ASA. My preferred configuration is bridged modem from ISP — ASA — L3 core switch doing all inside routing. ASA has 2 physical links to inside network: L3 link between ASA and core switch and separate switchport link to L2 port for firepower module. 1. I assume that in router mode Firewalla can do L3 link and work just fine. And all filtering will be done over the same L3 link? Or Firewalla needs access to L2 traffic? 2. If Firewalla is connected via direct L3 link, dhcp and dns requests won’t be broadcasted to Firewalla and I can’t use Firewalla’s DHCP server pools for multiple inside vlans. Basically I feel that I’d need to configure L3 core switch for L2 mode and let Firewalla do all routing, vlans, etc. This makes me nervous as I had zero personal experience with Firewalla.

Firewalla

May 10, 2025 17:02

Yes, it is best to configure the L3 switch as a switch. Otherwise, it is difficult for the firewalla track down devices.

Faifman Public

May 10, 2025 18:41

Thank you. Does Firewalla support VTP v.3 and can it be VTP server or I need to set vlans on both Firewalla and the switch?

May 11, 2025 16:26

VTP as in a cisco VLAN protocol? no

May 11, 2025 17:22

Thank you. Yes, as in Cisco vlan protocol

May 11, 2025 21:06

VTP is fairly complex and more of a enterprise feature; are you using this in a home? home lab? or small business deployment?

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