Comment on How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2)
TDCN@feddit.dk 1 week agoIt can be a good idea to mentatlly seperate your router needs with you 2.5G speeds and WiFi needs, they dont have to live on the same device. For you private lan you need a router so you can hide and control your devices behind NAT and firewall. For that I’d just recommended one of the small hap or hax devices that suits your needs for routing, and/or wifi. If you want to be fancy the RB9005U could maybe work with your switching need as well.
You don’t need Vlan. I believe it is not what you think it is. Vlan is if you want to segregated your own lan int to different independent lans with various firewall rules.
All you need for your dorm is NAT. But for the love of god make sure that you dont connect your lan with the dorm lan or your DHCP server will start handing out IP’s to everyone else in your dorm and it will crash the dorm router. The ethernet jack in the wall of your dorm (I assume that’s how it works for you) needs to go to the WAN port of the router. But bare in mind on mikrotik you can configure the WAN port to be any physical port you want, but with default config it is port 1.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I may have misused the word dorm. It is a shared appartment rented with a couple other students.
My goal is basically to set up a private network inside the network used by the other people I share the apartment with so I can tinker with stuff like setting my own DNS server up for the network without possibly impacting the other people in case of failure. My naive impression was that I would need to use a VLAN to accomplish that.
In regards to your idea of using multiple devices I kind of agree but I want to keep the initial cost and energy usage low for now which is why I am trying to find a device I can use for this but also reuse in the future for something else if I want to upgrade (or just retire it without too much sunk cost).
TDCN@feddit.dk 1 week ago
I think we are getting too off topic here so maybe make a seperate post in here asking how to tinker with selfhosting, dns, tinkering etc and you can have multiple people’s inputs.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah, you are right. That’s probably a good idea.