Update, after reseting the router and getting rid of the problem, i am back to the original problem where if i go to the HTTPS url for my local synology, i get check referer failed.

@Pink_Waters Yes, Controller mode. I had to improvise and turn my server interface bridge to "lan aware", then created a tagged bridge from the same interface. now the server is sitting across 2...

Since I Have to buy the router to discover that lan-lan ACLs not available on gateway. How can one go about doing ACLs for specific port or ip for vlans attached to SSIDs ? Right now my "enterrprise...

I had to reset the router in order to resolve the bug that the mod here was dancing around acknowledging it.

@Clive_A I already explained in my first post to the letter what happened. When I tried to go to the synology that I have https web portal. I would get the referer error. I searched and found your...

@Clive_A I did your solution #2 here, adding the synology FQDN in the domain field. then everytime i go to the synology address i get a tplink login page for the standlone mananagement of the...