Greetings!
Recently I have bought two Routerbards RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN and a switch CRS112-8P-4S-IN with a plan for rebuilding my home network in a more professional way. The long story short, the task seems to be harder than I thought. Especially as I have only a little knowledge about networking on the lower level (mainly bridging, various protocols, etc.) and there are many features that RouterOS offers, many of them unknown to me. Despite my lack of basic networking knowledge, I think I have a pretty clear vision of what I want to do.
I would like my home network to have two wireless networks, private and public, both accessible via all Routerboards (currently I have three) as APs. The APs will be located in different parts of my house and all of them will be connected through SFP ports to the switch which will then be connected to the internet via ethernet or later SFP port. The main thing is that I want all devices connected to the private wifi network or ethernet ports on any device to be able to see each other as if it was one big LAN network and the public network should be separated. And if possible everything should be managed from the central device.
I have managed to set up two wifi networks on one device earlier via virtual wlan and even secured them with some firewall rules so that computers on private network had access everywhere and computers on public wifi could see only public parts of the network but that was only one device. Now I have three APs and the switch and I have absolutely no clue how to bridge/route everything the correct way. So far I have always locked myself out of the device when trying to set everything up in a way it at least resembles what I want to do.
Would it be possible for you to point me in the right direction? It does not need to be a precise algorithm of what to do, but I would appreciate materials that contain necessary concepts that I can use for the setting of the network.
Thank you very much in advance!