Segregating a home network

magicmike

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Hello.

I've got an ASUS RT-AC66U Gig router and a Netgear JGS524Ev2 Gig Prosafe Plus switch in my home network. I have 6 rooms that need access to the internet. Due to some of my roommate's rather reckless online habits, I'm trying to segregate the network. 6 VLANs would be preferable. I believe this is possible with my current equipment, but I'm unfamiliar with configuring it.

I did attempt to configure it by adding each room's port and the router's port to a separate vlan under the advanced settings, but the network wasn't segregated afterwards. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike
 
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Not with the router factory firmware. You need to load other firmware to the router like dd-wrt. The asus dd-wrt may have the feature I have not stayed current on the features that has.

Your router and switch must work together since your switch is only layer 2. The router must have ip subnets and stuff like DHCP servers defined for each vlan. You will need to create a virtual lan interface for each vlan in your router. You are going to need to do some studding so you understand for example what using a tagged port does. This is actually a fairly advanced topic that can not easily be described in simple forum posts.
Not with the router factory firmware. You need to load other firmware to the router like dd-wrt. The asus dd-wrt may have the feature I have not stayed current on the features that has.

Your router and switch must work together since your switch is only layer 2. The router must have ip subnets and stuff like DHCP servers defined for each vlan. You will need to create a virtual lan interface for each vlan in your router. You are going to need to do some studding so you understand for example what using a tagged port does. This is actually a fairly advanced topic that can not easily be described in simple forum posts.
 
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magicmike

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This makes sense. I do have school house experience configuring Cisco equipment, so I'm familiar with using tagged ports and setting up the DHCP pools. All of the routers I've used supported Inter-VLAN routing. Thank you for pointing this out, it should have been fairly obvious as I couldn't find any VLAN settings on the router. I will look into the dd-wrt suggestion.