Balance 20 and AMPLIFI mesh router

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Hello,
I want to get the balance 20 for the dual wan and want to use my AMPLIFI Alien mesh Wi-Fi router. Is this possible? If so what do I have to do to make this work?

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Yes you can, but I expect the way that it will work by default is the AMPLIFI will act as a NAT router.
This means that the Balance 20 will only ever see one IP/mac address (of the AMPLIFI) and not the devices behind it.

So you will lose the ability to do some of the more advanced source IP/MAC based routing controls, and you will need to change the https session persistence algo to use destination IPs instead of source IPs otherwise you’ll find all of your https sessions stuck on one WAN.

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If you can find a way to put the AMPLIFI into bridge mode (and maintain the MESH which is the hard bit I think) then you can use the Balance 20 fully as it will see the source IPs of your devices.

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Thank you for the reply, I appreciate your time.