How do I use extra ports of firewall as another LAN port?

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XG 135 have 8 ports. I use 1 for LAN (port1), WAN1 (port2) and WAN2 (port3) . I have excess 5 ports. LAN has Vlans IDs 20 and 30. Default DHCP is on LAN port. I want to use excess ports as LAN ports, that also get their IP from Default DHCP. How do I do this? 
 By assigning a port as LAN, it asks for an IP Address. I use 192.168.1.1 on LAN (port1). Should I assign 1 here? Or DHCP? I tried assigning 192.168.1.2 to this new port, and I can ping it from my desktop. But devices plugged into this new port doesn't get an IP address. 
 Please share how to do this.

jprusch · Accepted Answer

No, a bridge acts like one port.

jprusch · Answer

You could build a bridge with those additional ports. You go to network/LAN (port1) and add one ore more (free) ports to be part of an "ethernet bridge".

emmosophos · Answer

Hello there, 
 No, it won&rsquo;t reset your Firewall Rules. The bridge will act as if you only had 1 port (for all the interface members of the bridge). 
 Regards,

How do I use extra ports of firewall as another LAN port?

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