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Native OSPF Configuration Support for Omada Gateways (ER8411 & others) via Controller GUI

 
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Native OSPF Configuration Support for Omada Gateways (ER8411 & others) via Controller GUI

Native OSPF Configuration Support for Omada Gateways (ER8411 & others) via Controller GUI
Native OSPF Configuration Support for Omada Gateways (ER8411 & others) via Controller GUI
a week ago
Tags: #dynamic routing
Model: OC220   ER8411  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.3.6 Build 20251028 Rel.12399

Description:

As a network administrator managing complex multi-vendor environments, I am currently migrating from legacy firewall solutions (Sophos/Cisco) to an Omada-based infrastructure featuring the ER8411 and the OC200/Software Controller.

While the ER8411 hardware natively supports OSPF in standalone mode, this functionality is currently not available within the Omada SDN Controller's graphical user interface.

 

Use Case:

In modern enterprise networks, dynamic routing is essential for:

  • Parallel Operation: Maintaining connectivity between new Omada-managed networks and legacy infrastructure (Sophos/OPNsense) during migration.

  • Redundancy: Automatically advertising routes to internal transit networks (RTN) and handling gateway failovers dynamically.

  • Scalability: Avoiding the overhead of maintaining dozens of static routes across multiple routers and firewalls.

 

Requested Functionality:

Please integrate an OSPF configuration menu under Settings -> Wired Networks -> Routing for Omada Gateways with the following options:

  • Global Settings: Enable/Disable OSPF, Router ID, Reference Cost, and Default Route Advertisement.

  • Area Management: Ability to define OSPF Areas (Dotted Decimal and Integer format).

  • Interface Settings: Assign OSPF to specific VLAN interfaces with support for Authentication (MD5/Plain), Cost, and Network Type (Broadcast/P2P).

  • Passive Interfaces: Toggle to prevent OSPF Hello packets on client-facing VLANs while still advertising the prefix.

 

Closing Note: The ER8411 is a powerful enterprise-grade gateway. Adding native OSPF support to the Omada SDN Controller would significantly enhance its viability for professional and high-availability network deployments.

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Re:Native OSPF Configuration Support for Omada Gateways (ER8411 & others) via Controller GUI
Thursday

  @sjatplanet 

 

Hello, thank you for posting on the TP-Link community. We appreciate all your feedback and feature requests here. We don't have specific details on whether the feature can be implemented across or when it might be. I'll log this feature request and share it with the team.
Feel free to let us know of any other feature requests you may have; we’d be happy to send them up for you.

 

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