<div dir="ltr">I have one downstairs in the basement right behind the router that uplinks to the one one on my desk. That one runs to the switch on the other side of the house at my media station, printer and AP. So I'm stuck with three and it just happens the wifi ap is at the worst end. I used to have it in the basement but then I couldn't reach it upstairs.<div><br></div><div>I'll look at the Trendnet. The 16 in the basement and two 8's might be prefect.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:30 AM Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><hr id="m_2988285712495792472zwchr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">From: </b>"Robert L. Harris" <<a href="mailto:robert.l.harris@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">robert.l.harris@gmail.com</a>><br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Sent: </b>Monday, January 2, 2017 6:55:33 PM<br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Subject: </b>[ale] VLANs for home with a Linux Router<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"> Anyone actually converted an existing "home" network to a VLAN'd network? I want to segment some traffic which crosses common dumb switches and think that the best way might be to use vlan tagging on my Linux firewall to break out the devices I don't want touching my default network.</div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">How many dumb switches do you really need? I bought a managed 10/100/1000 Trendnet 8port on Amazon for $40. It supports VLANs. They have a 16 port too.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
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