05-21-2017 09:54 AM
Hey all. I'll try to keep this brief and to the point while being detailed.
I setup a CCIE home lab and I setup 4 Cisco 3560 switches as i'm going through some L2 labs. My home network is pretty simple. I have FIOS coming into our first floor and use their modem/WAP. I have all of my equipment in the basement. I have a Linksys AP running DD-WRT in the basement that is acting as a repeater for my WLAN, and all of my equipment goes into the ports on that AP.
Out of no where, I started receiving duplicate IP messages on my computer and it was driving me nuts. I narrowed it down to my switches. When I unplugged the main copper from the Linksys AP in the basement, everything started working fine.
Rather than trying to figure out what is causing this issue, I think it'd be easier to segregate this from my regular /24 that i use throughout my house. I just don't know how to go about doing this. I never setup a DMZ or anything like that (nor am I opposed to it), but I'm just curious what is the best way to go about setting this up.
With these switches I have a Dell T620 running VMware with 20 virtual routers. It also has Windows Server 2k12 which has DuckDNS on it which is what I use to get me remote access. My thought is to take this entire environment and segregate it from my regular network.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-Michael
05-22-2017 12:24 AM
Hello Michael,
do you have a schematic drawing of your setup including your current IP addressing ? We need to get an idea what you want to separate from what...
05-22-2017 02:11 PM
Hey Georg.
I don't unfortunately, but hopefully I could describe it best as possible.
The FIOS feed coming into the first floor goes into their modem/WAP. This has the 192.168.70.0/24 network for all of my home devices.
Downstairs is all of my cisco gear. I don't have a feed from Verizon down there so I took an old Linksys WAP and I set it up as a repeater bridge with my current SSID, thus, I could use the 4 ports on the back of it. This Linksys WAP uses DD-WRT.
I figured I could segregate these ports and create a separate VLAN - 192.168.71.0/24. I followed some tutorials on dd-wrt sites but it doesn't seem to work. I'm thinking because maybe its set as a repeater? I'm not sure.
I hope this helps.
Thanks.
-Michael
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