[ale] VLANs for home with a Linux Router

[James Sumners]

As long as you don't bridge that subnet onto your personal network you
should be fine.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 19:39 Robert L. Harris <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>    One of the things I want to do is create 2 wifi lans using my Meraki.
> It'll create a guest lan based on vlans.  It should be able to handle
> multiple subnets, I'll just have to look into that instead.  I want to make
> sure someone on the guest lan can't get to my file server which is on a
> common switch though.
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> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:07 PM Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:
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> Many home switches don't understand vlan tagging. To get actual
> partitioning of the network with vlan tagging, you need to use addressable
> switches so certain ports are allowed certain vlans while others are not.
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> Use different IP networks and control the gateway. It's the same thing in
> the end and costs less.
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> On January 2, 2017 6:55:33 PM EST, "Robert L. Harris" <
> robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    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.
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> -R
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