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expired Posted by Eragorn | Staff • Nov 29, 2024
Nov 29, 2024 9:19 AM
Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch
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In my case, I have an outbound port on my VLAN aware switch that carries all traffic to a TP-Link ceiling mounted access point - that access point is is managed by Omada SDN (the poor man's version of Ubiquiti's SDN), and within the Omada controller interface, I have WLANs defined with a variety of SSIDs; the SSIDs then have VLAN IDs associated to them, so in the case of all my wireless IoT devices, I have an SSID that's exclusive to my IoT wireless devices, and that SSID is defined to only use the "IoT Only" VLAN ID I defined to get a DHCP assignment in the range identified for that VLAN.
Since the VLAN is defined at the router/firewall level (I use pfSense instead of Opnsense, but the concepts are the same) and has firewall rules preventing it from accessing my home network, my IoT devices are isolated from my home network.
So yes multiple VLAN IDs can be carried on a single ethernet cable to your WAP, regardless of brand, and the WAP's SSIDs can be isolated to only carry traffic for the VLAN IDs that you associate to the SSID.
I also have all my hardwired ethernet IoT hubs (i.e. a Lutron hub) connected to a VLAN-aware switch, to ports that are tagged with my IoT VLAN id, so those IoT hubs cannot see my home network, similar to the wireless IoT devices.
Your unmanaged switch could still be used to hang off of a VLAN-aware switch, but all of its ports would only carry whatever VLAN IDs are defined on the outbound port of the VLAN aware switch that the unmanaged switch is connected to. HTH
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So simply Ethernet cable to two separate routers and setup SSIDs independently? Am I oversimplifying? Recommendations on how to split networks? PCs v Smart Home v. Streaming etc.
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At the end of the day, both are manufactured in China...
I used to be a Netgear fan until their routers and switches randomly gave me issues. In my experience, Netgear's firmware stability is questionable and support is basically non-existent. TP-Link has always been rock solid, so I guess to each their own.
No joke, my synology NAS reported that my TP Link access point tried to brute force SSH into it. Immediately returned that
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