i have the rare opportunity to rebuild/redesign the network for the house i'm living in, and i'm asking for some advice and nudging in the right direction.
I'd like to understand what's going on in my network and i see this as a journey to learn something (usergroup: enthusiast user )
So after years of just adding devices and clients as they came in and having them in one subnet,
i now want to build the network from ground up: reasonable, expandable and manageable.
There are 2 rental parties, 1 cat6 to every room with some wallmounted PoE AP to provide local Wifi/guest Wifi.
I opted for the MikroTik netPower 16P (CRS318-16P-2S+OUT), because the patchfield and point of presence are in a somewhat dusty environment with temperature fluctuations, it has enough PoE ports and last but not least: 16 ports seem enough for my needs.
I based my first draw of the network design mainly on an Lab IP Address Plan
the mikrotek-wiki and the threads Using RouterOS to VLAN your network and Mikrotik VLAN Konfiguration ab RouterOS Version 6.41
and came to the following layout:
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Name VLAN IPv4
Management 10 192.168.10.0/24
Guest net 20 192.168.20.0/24
Family 1 30 192.168.30.0/24
Family 1 IoT 31 192.168.31.0/24
Family 2 40 192.168.40.0/24
Family 2 IoT 41 192.168.41.0/24
Nextcloud 50 192.168.50.50
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Guest
Family 1
Family 1 IoT
Family 2
Family 2 IoT
So my first Questions are:
- Is the layout reasonable? Any advices?
- Is this doable with the choosen device?
- I'm lacking some basics: The PoE AP feature one eth passthrough port. But when i connect that CAT6 wire to the CRS, am i loosing this physical port on the CRS to the WiFi or is it still assignable to another VLAN? i don't get it…
Thanks for reading this WoT and your thoughts.
D.