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Help with topology and approach
I'm hoping to get some advice on topology and approach to accomplish my goals using the Netgear stack identified here. Please let me know what additiona info would be helpful to have. Thanks in advan...
Well, the switch can be configured into three VLANs of course. Each VLAN is it's own broadcast domain, think of three different non-managed switches. On the IPv4 layer, each VLAN does require it's own IP subnet.
Your consumer router can handle only one LAN, do many2one NAT for one IP subnet, inlcuding limited port forwarding to IP addresses on that very same subnet. If using that network as an intermediate transport net for connecting it's hard to hide - certainly with that same consumer router again.
That's why DaneA correctly pointed to a basic small business router with the ability to deal with multiple LANs/VLANs, multiple subnets, many-to-one NAT for multiple subnets ... Of course, you can "design" an experimental environment with one or two similar crap routers esblishing double-NAT, .... Personally I would look into a small but performant security router appliance.
So, the managed switch is not sufficient to create VLANs to accomplish this work?
Well, the switch can be configured into three VLANs of course. Each VLAN is it's own broadcast domain, think of three different non-managed switches. On the IPv4 layer, each VLAN does require it's own IP subnet.
Your consumer router can handle only one LAN, do many2one NAT for one IP subnet, inlcuding limited port forwarding to IP addresses on that very same subnet. If using that network as an intermediate transport net for connecting it's hard to hide - certainly with that same consumer router again.
That's why DaneA correctly pointed to a basic small business router with the ability to deal with multiple LANs/VLANs, multiple subnets, many-to-one NAT for multiple subnets ... Of course, you can "design" an experimental environment with one or two similar crap routers esblishing double-NAT, .... Personally I would look into a small but performant security router appliance.
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