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sjhx
Jul 11, 2023Aspirant
Are Private VLANs what I need?
I have a M4100-D12G with 2 subnets. I would like to have subnet1 on ports 1-4 and subnet2 on ports 5-12 and not have any traffic travel between these. I think private (community mode) VLANs are ...
sjhx
Jul 13, 2023Aspirant
Private VLAN group allows you to create groups of users within a VLAN that cannot communicate with members in different groups but only within the same group.
I think this is what I need. My subnet1 is 2 audio mixing consoles, plus wired and wireless remote controlers. I could have the ffirst 4 ports as group1 and the other 8 as group2.
This would be the same as using 2 separate switches?
schumaku
Jul 13, 2023Guru - Experienced User
Exactly what normal VLAN are used for.
- MikeD1234Jul 13, 2023NETGEAR Expert
Hi sjhx,
yes, if you only have one subnet, and can't setup static routes/routing/vlans on your Firewall/router, then this could be a solution.
As schumaku says, it's kind of the same as VLANs, and a more graceful solution would probably be using different subnet/VLANs, to differentiate between them with VLAN + IP scheme.
Your router/firewall, often should support static routes, and it's not to hard to configure once you have the routing to your switch configured correctly.
Mike
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