Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters
victorz@lemmy.world 18 hours agoGoing back a little bit, you mentioned advantages to “segregating into vlans”?
Would you like to elaborate on some of those advantages?
Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters
victorz@lemmy.world 18 hours agoGoing back a little bit, you mentioned advantages to “segregating into vlans”?
Would you like to elaborate on some of those advantages?
B0rax@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I am certainly not an expert by any stretch. But here are my reasons: Ability to isolate some “sketchy” IOT devices into an IOT only vlan, where they are not allowed to access the rest of the network, only the internet and incoming traffic from the other vlans. Having a “clean” vlan/subnet for servers and services where I can give out static IPs without worrying about collisions with client devices
victorz@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ah, nice. Very cool, very reasonable.
And you can do this all with a consumer grade router maybe? Or do you need to have like a small PC-like device running special software that acts like a router, that handles this?
B0rax@feddit.org 16 hours ago
I have a Unifi router (Unifi cloud Gateway Fiber to be precise), which one you could argue is on the higher end of consumer hardware. But there are also more consumer oriented routers with that capability.
victorz@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Cool, thank you so much for the info, mate!