Comment on Basic networking/subnetting question.

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not that they are expensive, it’s that they run archaic proprietary OSes which the consumer cannot control. I cannot trust such a switch when the rest of my network depends on it. Please let me know if something in the post didn’t make sense.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Put a multi port NIC in your router PC and use a separate unmanaged switch for each network then.

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    • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks but as I mentioned that will not scale. I’m interested in if separating computers by subnets will work. Have you tried something like this?

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      • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s been a long time since I actually used subnets, but IIRC you will need a physical interface for each network on the router regardless.

        So let’s say you set up your /24 network into 2x /25’s, you will need an interface for the .0 network, and another for the .128 network

        If you just have an interface for the switch, and another for the WAN connection, I don’t think subletting will work for what you’re trying to do

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