Hello,
At my school I "own" a small LAN with a VPN to the outside world, and
use pfSense to control that part of things with a regular HP 2530 switch
internally.
I'd like to be able to have students/professors access the LAN outside
of the boxes themselves, so getting an AP seems like an obvious
solution; based on the other thread the Ubiquiti UniFi AP seems like a
good choice to attach to the switch.
We have a laser printer down the hall to which I attached an old home
wifi router (don't recall the brand) making it accessible to people.
Thought it would be nice to have this also bridge to the LAN, so profs
could access that and the LAN's own printer through one connection. The
LAN/pfSense would manage this so the wifi router should become a
bridging device, yes?
Can someone point me to something online which would explain how the
above HW setup might be done, if it's even possible with the
connectivity described? I've looked at several places which describe
various permutations, but am uncertain if they apply here.
Questions which I believe involve pfSense:
Can the (Ubiquiti) AP both handle requests from outside laptops, and
serve as the link to the other printer?
Is it possible to set things up in pfSense in a way that all incoming
LAN requests are shunted to an Apache server on one of the LAN machines,
while printer requests go to the printers instead? Would this involve
the AP and printers being on a DMZ?
Thanks for any help!
Kenward
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_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
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could have. - Lee Iacocca
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