Needs internet access as well as access to the IoT stuff to manage it. VLAN 200 - "critical equipment" like the unRAID server. That just seems like it's asking for trouble and not best practices, but I don't know.) Needs to communicate with everything (not crazy about the idea of a "default" vlan. VLAN 100 (let's do 100's, sure) - Desktop. I tried to use draw.io to write up some sort of plan for the topology, but I can't even figure out if I'm "designing" (if you can even call it that) everything correctly. Like setting " vlan-mode=secure" enables the switch, but where is that in Winbox? Is it even available in Winbox or am I forced to use the CLI? Then I found this link but a) it's command line, which I can copy/paste, but I'd rather understand what's going on, and b) doesn't go into depth enough for me to pick and choose the pieces I need from it. I've seen other examples using the switch chip (I *think* in Winbox it would be the VLAN tab of the Switch menu to set this up), but a lot of these examples seem to apply to a router and a trunk to a separate switch or the router doesn't have the same chipset, etc. So that means that setup is completely useless to me, because I want to take advantage of the switch chip. However, enabling VLAN filtering turns OFF hardware offload. Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to the wiki, pvid is only gets checked if VLAN filtering is enabled. However, in the All-In-One config (example 2) which I thought would apply to me, the author uses pvid. One thing that really threw me for a loop is that link is the go-to for setting up VLAN's. (Boy, sounds like my job haha)Īnd yes, I've read this infamous link but it has not helped me. I just don't have spare equipment to test this in a lab setup. While I'm a newbie at this, I do work in IT, just not on the NetEng side, so I'm capable of learning. Not sure what filtering even is, so don't know that even matters. Specifically Atheros 8327 which support hardware offload but not VLAN filtering.
I know that the HAP AC2 has a switch chip. At least none that a newbie would understand, which is why I'm here. I get that the GUI is meant to be one size fits all and things won't apply to everyone, but there doesn't seem to be a logical organization to where things are set. Bridge? Switch? Interface? Why are there so many choices and what do they mean? Those are all obviously on wifi except for the Hue hub, which is plugged in to the dumb switch at the moment.įinally - my first question - where do I even set VLANs? There are three spots and I haven't the faintest idea what difference it makes. Currently that's 3 Google Home speakers, and 4 Philips Hue lights with hub, though that will likely grow as well. I also have a Home Assistant VM managing my smart devices. Then on wifi, I have one camera (non-PoE) though I'd like to possibly add more.
#Mikrotik hap ac2 Pc
In addition to the Pi's, the game consoles, I have my main desktop PC that communicates with the unRAID server doing nightly backups as well as managing it through the web interface. Not that I'm saturating 1G ports, but I guarantee that my dumb switch doesn't have true 1G uplink because these cheap consumer switches generally don't. But something that has an SFP+ port so I can get 10G throughput. The HAP doesn't have any SFP+ ports, so maybe in the farther future I'd replace the dumb switch with a 16 or 24 gig port and 2-4 SFP+ ports and then replace the HAP with. Ideally I'd like to replace that switch with a managed one with more ports. Also the IPMI for the server, because I didn't want to take up every port on the HAP right away. On the dumb switch, I have a bunch of video game consoles and some Raspberry Pis. Right now I have a dumb switch plugged into eth2, and my unRAID server/NAS plugged in to eth3.
As much as I'd love to jump into that, I would rather take advantage of the GUI of Winbox and I have not seen any, or at least none that apply, instructions for my setup. One of the things that has tripped me up is that most of the instructions are in CLI. Anyway, I think I've read hundreds of pages in the last week and am no further along in my goal. Some information seems outdated (pre-ROS 6.4), or doesn't apply, or there are better ways to do things depending on which equipment you have, etc. I have poured through the forums at Mikrotik, the wiki, (which I think also has parts of the wiki) and I'm totally confused. Currently I'm trying to wrap my head around setting up VLANs. Coming from the consumer router market, I'm still new to setting things up when I have all these controls.