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Update home network for IoT and private devices
Using a Netgear R8000 Nighthawk router, I would like to connect 2 GS108Tv2 switches to support 2 VLANs. I want to separate the computers, phones, tablets from the Arlo Cameras, Google Home, Chromecas...
- You should set the default VLAN for an untagged port to the VLAN that you want untagged traffic received on that port to be mapped to. So that means the default VLAN for the ports connected to the HTPC, PC, NAS and RPi3 should be set to the private VLAN. And the ports for your IoT devices should have their default VLAN set to the IoT VLAN.
I understand, but I don't know what's your rationale about setting untagged ports to default to the IoT VLAN?
My thinking (if I'm correct) was to use the untagged ports to connect the Arlo camera base stations to since they do not support vlans.
Keeping the IoT vlan as default vlan for untagged ports would work best I believe to keep that traffic separate from the private network.
Keeping the IoT vlan as default vlan for untagged ports would work best I believe to keep that traffic separate from the private network.
- But don't you also want to put other devices, like your PC and NAS in the private VLAN? The procedure would be similar. You would mark the port as untagged but you would, instead, set the default VLAN to the private VLAN.
The way you phrased it made it sound like you were going to put all untagged ports into the IoT VLAN, regardless of the device.- I do want to put the htpc, PC, nas and rpi3 on private vlan but for the other devices that cannot be configured to connect to a vlan, I was thinking of making that the IoT vlan (guest) network so that it could also communicate with the Google home on the IoT vlan wifi. So it is recommended that I do not set the IoT vlan as default vlan for untagged ports?
- You should set the default VLAN for an untagged port to the VLAN that you want untagged traffic received on that port to be mapped to. So that means the default VLAN for the ports connected to the HTPC, PC, NAS and RPi3 should be set to the private VLAN. And the ports for your IoT devices should have their default VLAN set to the IoT VLAN.
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