TP-Link Omada VPN Gateway ER8411 Management
We found the management interface at 192.168.0.1 and were asked to change the password.
Once we were in, we managed to get to the dashboard that certainly looks a lot less consumer-ish than the consumer lines.
Even though we purchased this unit later in 2025, it was still several firmware versions behind.
We tried updating automatically, but that did not work.
Instead, we had to manually update the firmware in steps.
There were some fairly rough performance challenges with hitting 10G in earlier firmware versions, so we know we needed to update.
It was a bit annoying to have to do multiple updates to get onto the current firmware. We had to do the same thing for a Fortinet firewall we are reviewing as an example, so it is very common in the industry. Still, it is painful to buy a box, then have to go though multiple firmware upgrades.
One of the reasons we are showing these steps was just to show how the dashboard changed over the generations of firmware.
Once we were in, we could setup the ports for WAN and LAN.
Here is the default Attack Defense under Firewall.
There is an application filter as well, where we tried blocking Netflix since we can generate Netflix traffic using our CyPerf box.
There was also a setting for IPS/IDS where you can set it at high.
Part of the reason we are showing this is just to show what happened when we set this at high. Let us get to the performance next.
There is a 4-pin serial header to the top left of the main chip/heatsink – be great if you were able to grab the boot log from devices and post them up so folks can see what they run ‘under the hood’