TP-Link Archer C6 + TP-R600VPN - Parental Controls
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So I have had an Archer C6 for a while now and it works great, the parental controls have been a great feature that I use regularly.
However with working from home more I needed to sort a nailed up IPSec VPN, so I got the TP-R600VPN. After having a look I realised it would only seem to work if I had the R600 connected to my fibre modem via the WAN1 Port and made that my default gateway/internet router.
After changing some configs looks good, the C6 still is the DHCP server but gives out the default gateway as the R600.
Then I realised parental controls now don't work, becase the devices can still talk to the new default gateway.
Is there any way around this? I have played about but I cannot find one. I thought I might be able to set the C6 back as the default gateway and then add a wildcard route that meant any traffic for the internet is sent over to the R600, but I cannot seem to add the route, it seems to want a valid IP address rather than a wildcard like 0.0.0.0.
Any ideas appreciated.
Hopefully the below snippet of the router part of the network is suitable?
Fibre modem connects to WAN1 on the VPN Router and then one of it's LAN ports connects to one of the LAN ports on the Archer C6.
I did try using the WAN port on the Archer C6 but I don't think this will work as it will mess up the VPN connection as I don't think my local network will then be able to talk to the VPN router?
