I have a possible scenario that I am not sure the 493ah will handle but wanted to ask anyway. We have 3 private networks 192.168.1.0/24(lan) 192.168.3.0/24(lan) and 192.168.5.0/24(wireless)
Is it possible to set up the 493 board so that all of these private traffic ip networks flow out of a single cable internet connection?
I would like to put say 4 of the ports into a bridge(192.168.1.0/24) and route the bridged traffic out the cable connection.
Route the wireless network(192.168.3.254/24) out the single internet connection
Route the other ethernet private network(192.168.5.254/24) out the single internet connection.
Would I need to turn on stp or rstp for this to work? I have tested this just using single ethernet without the bridge and it seemed to pass traffic very well but could not generate the amount of traffic that the actual application would generate.
Id probably use switching instead of bridging if you are going to have a lot of traffic going port to port in the 4-port group you were talking about.
I typically make 3 bridges and assign ips to each of them, setup 3 pools, 3 dhcp servers, set up switch ports and attach the master port to a bridge group, attach the wifi1 to a bridge group, and the remaining switch ports to another bridge group. Doing it this way makes it very easy to make dynamic changes. IE: Setup a VAP and include it in the bridge group for some of the switched ports, setting up vlans and including them in a bridge. It makes it so you dont have to go through and change the in/out interface associated with firewall rules or dhcp servers, etc, etc.