Creating a VLAN at home
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Do you even know what a VLAN is?
I don't think you do.
I don't think you do.
I assume you want the wifi network on seperate subnet to the wired lan?
This would depend on whether you router/switch was vlan capable.
Certainly on my cisco router the wifi is on a seperate vlan, as is the dmz, the server lan etc with all the traffic between vlans contolled by a zone based firewall.
I doubt a comsumer grade device would have this functionallity to be honest, but having never had a linksys, I cant say for sure.
This would depend on whether you router/switch was vlan capable.
Certainly on my cisco router the wifi is on a seperate vlan, as is the dmz, the server lan etc with all the traffic between vlans contolled by a zone based firewall.
I doubt a comsumer grade device would have this functionallity to be honest, but having never had a linksys, I cant say for sure.
Thanks for the helpful advice there HarryPainful.
I would like the wifi on a seperate subnet for security and I just need to find a way of doing this. I believe my router is capable of it although I am not sure if the Tomato firmware can do it.
I would like the wifi on a seperate subnet for security and I just need to find a way of doing this. I believe my router is capable of it although I am not sure if the Tomato firmware can do it.
Having a quick look it seems tomato does not support vlan tags
There's a lot more to vlans than just setting a different subnet, they're not the same thing
I don't know about the tomato firmware however im sure it'll let you firewall between the wifi and LAN networks
edit: actually, reading a little more, it seems the lan ports are all fixed in vlan0 and wifi is vlan1. So while you cant set ports in different vlans its obviously segmented the lan/wifi to allow you to setup firewall rules between the two
There's a lot more to vlans than just setting a different subnet, they're not the same thing
I don't know about the tomato firmware however im sure it'll let you firewall between the wifi and LAN networks
edit: actually, reading a little more, it seems the lan ports are all fixed in vlan0 and wifi is vlan1. So while you cant set ports in different vlans its obviously segmented the lan/wifi to allow you to setup firewall rules between the two
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Does your rotuer support access control lists or VLANS?
What are you trying to achieve?
What are you trying to achieve?
What a rude man...
OP,
I use DD-WRT on the WRT54GL I can say with certainty that it supports VLAN configuration. So this is an option unless you're set on Tomato.
Thanks for the replies.
I would like to achieve 2 seperate networks, one on wifi and one on wired. My reason for this is that my tenants use the wifi to access the web but they are also currently on the same network as myself, not too secure. I just need to seperate them. If I cannot do it on Tomato I guess I can go to DD-WRT.
I would like to achieve 2 seperate networks, one on wifi and one on wired. My reason for this is that my tenants use the wifi to access the web but they are also currently on the same network as myself, not too secure. I just need to seperate them. If I cannot do it on Tomato I guess I can go to DD-WRT.