Jason Gauthier:
> On Sat, May 15, 2021, 1:42 PM amuza <amuza@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Welcome Jason!
>>
>>>   I've been looking for a mesh network for my home to ease the trouble
>> with
>>> flakey and various APs from different vendors.  One issue I continually
>> run
>>> into when shopping for a mesh setup is that many of the commercial ones
>>> want to replace your router, take over DHCP, etc.
>>>
>>
>> A LibreMesh deployment will give you a fully functional mesh network.
>> LibreMesh nodes are not only APs, but routers too. So, in principle, you
>> don't need anything else than LibreMesh nodes.
>>
>>> With LibreMesh is it possible to continue using my own router?  I have a
>>> Cisco ASA that I am somewhat partial to and I don't want to stop using
>> it.
>>> I couldn't find anything (obvious) in the docs on how if this scenario
>> was
>>> possible.
>>>
>>
>> As far as I know the Cisco ASA cannot participate in the network as a
>> mesh node. Maybe you could use it as a perimeter firewall or as an edge
>> router?
>>
>> Maybe it is possible to let the Cisco ASA be the DHCP router of the
>> LibreMesh network, probably someone else here in the list knows better
>> than me.
>>
>> But anyway, have you considered the invaluable benefits of getting rid
>> of evil technologies and jumping into the Free Software world?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for your repsonse.  I don't want my ASA to be part of the mesh
> network, just act as my edge router. If I can do that, I'll give libremesh
> a try, for sure.
>
> As I mentioned, I like my ASA. I don't want to give it up. I'm no stranger
> to FOSS, as I first started using Linux in 1995. :)
>
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Ok, I had to try.

In 1995 I hardly knew what software was (Free or not:)

You can have your ASA acting as an Edge router of a LibreMesh network.
It just requires an Ethernet cable,  one end connected to your ASA and
the other end connected to the WAN port of one of your LibreMesh routers.

But I guess you are not looking for such a basic setup. Maybe you can
send a diagram of what you want.

In the case you want your ASA to be the DHCP server, I don't know how to
do that. I guess everything is possible with Free Software, but I don't
know how much work it would require.