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  • before spending any money, just reuse old equipment you have around, even if it wont max out the speed. You can try out openwrt, opnsense, openbsd, linux, etc… deciding which ecosystem you like is very important before you buy hardware!!! Different devices have different hardware support, etc.

    Regarding hardware - Your fiber connection is 5GiB but your ISP cpe only has 2.5GbE ports, so you will need to bond two ports together to get your 5GiB throughput to your router. Once you select your routing environment, you can choose hardware that allows for multiple wan side ports that you can bond. (Perhaps your ISP has a CPE you can get 10GbE out of, or with a spf port, the same for your router)

    Regarding Switches - You don’t need a fancy managed switch, as long as you trust devices on your network to do peaceful vlaning on their own, you can just send vlan tagged traffic across a dumb switch no problem. Only when you start talking about doing default vlan tagging and enforcement on a per port basis do you need a fancier switch. So depending on what you want to do with vlans, you can save money here.

    Regarding Wifi - Depending on your routing solution, it could have wifi attached to it, or you can just get a specific access point on your network that only provides wifi and rely on your router/gateway setup to do all the configuration.

    FWIW - I just go full ubiquity, router, switches, ap. I used to fiddle around with openbsd routing, and it was really fun, but life got busy and ubiquiti fills the niche between just works, and letting me get really picky with settings.




  • jet@hackertalks.comtohomelab@lemmy.mlPi Alert VLAN issue
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    8 months ago

    Most vlans have different network address ranges. So broadcast and discovery packets on one range won’t go over to the other. Well you can connect to them directly with IP addresses, whatever discovery mechanism they’re using isn’t going across the network boundary.