The router can work in Router mode, or bridge mode. In all modes, you need to change the network typology, i.e. you need to reconnect the wires.
In “this mode”, you don’t need to touch your network setup. You only need to connect the WAN port of the GL.iNet router to your main router’s LAN, it will take over the network gateway. All of your data will go throught the GL.iNet router. VPN, DNS, Adguard etc. all works.
Yes the GL.iNet uses ARP spoofing and tell every device that it is the gateway.
Some vendors call it “simple mode”, which actually does not explain too much.
As I don’t know an official term for this network behaviour, I do think of ‘Transparent Gateway’ as more explained term.
I don’t think I want anyone in my branches is using this (I’m head of IT), but I can think of some use cases.
The question behind ‘simple mode’ is “Where stands the audience”?
For any not network aware user it sounds simple to crack open the communication and hijack the Gateway. For any IDS or filtering (even to protect the users) it will be hell.
In German I would stick with “Erweitertes Gateway” (Enhanced Gateway).
What do you expect from this setting? An easy way to use VPN in an existing network. For me the easiest way is NAT. But I know this is the minority of travel router users.
ARP spoofing is just the used technique. It is not what it does for the end user. This is the reason why I would vote against a too technical term, even of it is not wrong.
Yes, It is. But it’s not coming soon.
We are in the process of officially upgrading flint to 4.x, so we have not compiled the test firmware for flint yet.