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Advice asked for home network setup
Hello,
Hope some of you in this community can give me some advice on how to best setup my network.
I have a cable modem from my ISP which is set to bridge mode
A Linksys VELOP sytem with multiple wireless nodes (but the question is about my wired network :))
Two switches: a GS108E and a GS108PE
The wired network has the following things that need to be attached:
Two PoE Dahua network cameras
A Synology DS720+ NAS
An Ajax alarm system
A Mac Mini
A Philips HUE bridge
A SONOS Boost
A Solar Edge inverter for my solar panels
So, 1 item too much to do this with an 8 port switch, so I need to use both switches. What would be the best setup?
Cable modem > Velop > GS108PE > GS108E
(the velop has 1 port in and 1 port out and all other devices are spread over the ports of the switches)
This is my current setup. And weirdly enough I can't see the switches in the Velop. Also, I can't access them in the browser of the Mac Mini which is connected to the GS108PE. In the Netgear app on my iPhone I can see the assigned network address: 192.168.0.239 - same for both switches !?! -weird. Also, every item in my network has a 192.168.1.X address. The switches have 192.168.0.X
Would it be better to do it like this?
Cable modem > GS108PE > and give both Velop and GS108E a port in the GS108PE
Anyone an idea why I can't access the switches?
Many thanks in advance for your input.
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Edit: I rebooted everything. First the Velop, then the PE and then the E.
Now they got different 192.168.1.X numbers assigned and I can log into them.
(to find out that link aggreggation is not possible with the PE ;-)
Leaves my question to: what is better: to connect the switches to the Velop, or connect the Velop to a switch.
The Smart Managed Plus and Pro switches might booting and timeout much faster than the Velop might do - and the dhcpd will run into a timeout. Instead of retrying, these swiches fall back to the the default IP config if DHCP does not succeed. Configure a fixed IP config to these switches.
Afraid, I have no idea about the second port on the Velop behaviour in router and/or in AP mode.
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