Home Network Firewall Options
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@wrx7m said:
@brianlittlejohn Ah. I knew it was a "home" network thread but thought some people would have been blurring the lines with their gear.
here and there
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@wirestyle22 I would put the same thing in at my home... if I didn't live in an apartment and put in a proper cable plant in it.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@wirestyle22 I would put the same thing in at my home... if I didn't live in an apartment and put in a proper cable plant in it.
I rent a Town House.
I put a raceway up to the upstairs (I have a loft style place so the bedroom upstairs can look down into the living room). I'm going to essentially mount this to a decently thick piece of black plywood so there will be very few holes--the management company would most likely think I hung pictures or something). I can remove all of this and have the maintenance guys at my job fix any pieces of the wall I need
It pays to be a nice person sometimes.I'll take pictures when I'm completely finished.
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Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
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@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
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@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Probably a better idea to figure out why the ERX is not cooperating with the FIOS router.
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@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
I'm sure I'm misconfiguring. So you have the external router connected to the ISP only with the ERX having a statically assigned IP and DHCP disabled on the fios router. Then connect everything to the ERX firewall. The gateway of the ERX would be the fios router. This is all correct?
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@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
I'm sure I'm misconfiguring. So you have the external router connected to the ISP only with the ERX having a statically assigned IP and DHCP disabled on the fios router. Then connect everything to the ERX firewall. The gateway of the ERX would be the fios router. This is all correct?
Are you sure the ERX needs a static address? Why not let the FIOS modem provide a DHCP lease to the ERX? If you only have the modem attached to the WAN port on the ERX it won't connect with the network at all.
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Modem <-> ERX <-> Network
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@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
I'm sure I'm misconfiguring. So you have the external router connected to the ISP only with the ERX having a statically assigned IP and DHCP disabled on the fios router. Then connect everything to the ERX firewall. The gateway of the ERX would be the fios router. This is all correct?
If FIOS will give you a dedicated IP, yes. Many home based ISPs will not give you a dedicated IP, so you're forced to use DHCP on the external interface of your ERX. This is normally fine, and how all those home routers in Best Buy expect to work (by getting a DHCP assigned IP from the ISP), the home router (ERX in your case) has a static internal IP, and then the home router (again ERX for you) uses DHCP to the home users.
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@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
I'm sure I'm misconfiguring. So you have the external router connected to the ISP only with the ERX having a statically assigned IP and DHCP disabled on the fios router. Then connect everything to the ERX firewall. The gateway of the ERX would be the fios router. This is all correct?
If FIOS will give you a dedicated IP, yes. Many home based ISPs will not give you a dedicated IP, so you're forced to use DHCP on the external interface of your ERX. This is normally fine, and how all those home routers in Best Buy expect to work (by getting a DHCP assigned IP from the ISP), the home router (ERX in your case) has a static internal IP, and then the home router (again ERX for you) uses DHCP to the home users.
I believe this is how I attempted to do it but I will verify tonight again and we'll see if I made a mistake or not.
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@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
I'm sure I'm misconfiguring. So you have the external router connected to the ISP only with the ERX having a statically assigned IP and DHCP disabled on the fios router. Then connect everything to the ERX firewall. The gateway of the ERX would be the fios router. This is all correct?
If FIOS will give you a dedicated IP, yes. Many home based ISPs will not give you a dedicated IP, so you're forced to use DHCP on the external interface of your ERX. This is normally fine, and how all those home routers in Best Buy expect to work (by getting a DHCP assigned IP from the ISP), the home router (ERX in your case) has a static internal IP, and then the home router (again ERX for you) uses DHCP to the home users.
I believe this is how I attempted to do it but I will verify tonight again and we'll see if I made a mistake or not.
Things to test to make sure it's working. From the ERX make sure you can ping the FIOS router, then see if you can ping Google DNS 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 If those work, then you know you have traffic from the ERX to the internet... then you just need to solve your internal rules problems if local computers can't get to the internet.
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@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Switched from Optimum to fios recently and I just attempted to get my ERX setup and It's not playing well. I had both a cable modem and router separately before and it worked perfectly but the fios router isn't playing well with the ERX. Is it possible for me to allow the fios router to be the DHCP server and just use the ERX as a firewall/switch? I didn't see anything in EdgeOS but I'm possibly missing it. Figured I would ask.
Sure, but it's only a DHCP to the outside interface of the ERX, not you're whole network. The ERX is a DHCP server to your devices inside your network.
I'm sure I'm misconfiguring. So you have the external router connected to the ISP only with the ERX having a statically assigned IP and DHCP disabled on the fios router. Then connect everything to the ERX firewall. The gateway of the ERX would be the fios router. This is all correct?
If FIOS will give you a dedicated IP, yes. Many home based ISPs will not give you a dedicated IP, so you're forced to use DHCP on the external interface of your ERX. This is normally fine, and how all those home routers in Best Buy expect to work (by getting a DHCP assigned IP from the ISP), the home router (ERX in your case) has a static internal IP, and then the home router (again ERX for you) uses DHCP to the home users.
I believe this is how I attempted to do it but I will verify tonight again and we'll see if I made a mistake or not.
Things to test to make sure it's working. From the ERX make sure you can ping the FIOS router, then see if you can ping Google DNS 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 If those work, then you know you have traffic from the ERX to the internet... then you just need to solve your internal rules problems if local computers can't get to the internet.
Yeah I'm sure it's a misconfiguration somewhere
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Got it working. I did it manually and it worked.
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I would like to add that I ran into some issue with the ERX configuration because I was using ETH1 as wan and ETH0 as LAN. I swapped them and ran the wizard and everything fell into place.
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@wrx7m said:
I would like to add that I ran into some issue with the ERX configuration because I was using ETH1 as wan and ETH0 as LAN. I swapped them and ran the wizard and everything fell into place.
You can run any port you want as the WAN or LAN because it is a router. So anything you were experiencing was simply a misconfiguration.
That said, I always recommend that people run the default wizard and use eth0 for WAN and eth1-4 for the LAN just so when they have to google something, they will likely be able to simply use the results.
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@JaredBusch said:
@wrx7m said:
I would like to add that I ran into some issue with the ERX configuration because I was using ETH1 as wan and ETH0 as LAN. I swapped them and ran the wizard and everything fell into place.
You can run any port you want as the WAN or LAN because it is a router. So anything you were experiencing was simply a misconfiguration.
That said, I always recommend that people run the default wizard and use eth0 for WAN and eth1-4 for the LAN just so when they have to google something, they will likely be able to simply use the results.
Yep. Eth0 or gigabit 0/0 is pretty standard to use as wan on any router. No reason to confuse people by changing it up (even though you should really use port descriptions if you can)
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I'm really impressed at EdgeOS. I can't talk its praises enough. For $60 I can't see anything else comparing.
