<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><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;" data-mce-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;"><b>From: </b>"Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:09:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] VLANs for home with a Linux Router<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><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;" data-mce-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;"><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.<br><div>I'll look at the Trendnet. The 16 in the basement and two 8's might be prefect.</div><br></div></blockquote><div>I made a mistake. It is TP-LINK.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K4DS5KU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>They have "Easy Smart" and "Unmanaged". EasySmart is the one.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Here is the 8port I'm running in my office. I've not tested VLAN since I don't need it yet. I upgraded my network when I upgraded Internet so I could guantee the same level of service to the wireless clients that Xfinity Biz was delivering to my home. I went with the TP-LINK because it was Gagabit and I could use VLANs when I wanted to start up a guest segment.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The only "guest" I have is a dhcp range. Almsot all clients that live here are DHCP, but dhcpd.conf is specific configurations for them.</div><div>I have a 10 IP DHCP range for the devices I build for work based on the first 3 MAC octets. I have a 10 IP DHCP range for NodeMCU devices based on their first 3 MAC octets.</div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Printer, XboxOne, Kids crap, etc all are DHCP ,but will always be assigned the same address. </div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Was was running Cisco 2900's, but a long run of CAT-5 on them become antennas radiating in the 400Mhz region. I decommissioned them and put them in the garage.</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></body></html>