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Home network design - is it "worth" centrally locating infrastructure?
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bingo600:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on December 19, 2021, 10:08:20 am ---But DLink also used to have a bad reputation, and from personal experience it was warranted. Don't know how they are now since I also wouldn't touch anything of their recent kit to find out :)

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I have not noticed any Critical bugs in the D-Link WebSmart switches.
I wouldn't touch their WiFi "Routers" though.
I'm using Cisco or Unifi  PoE capable AP's

/Bingo
David Hess:

--- Quote from: bingo600 on December 19, 2021, 07:19:03 am ---Watch out for those TP-Link switches.
They used to have Vlan1 connected to all ports (non removable) , causing nasty leaks.
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I have been upgrading to TP-Link TL-SG108E switches so will have to watch out for that.  Unfortunately they have at least 4 versions of this hardware.  Maybe the later versions are fixed.


--- Quote ---My favorite priced sattelite switch are D-Link DGS-1100-08 and the '08P for my PoE AP's
My favorite priced "Core" is D-Link DGS-1210-28 (Can do .1x and MAC filtering)
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I gave up on D-Link almost 20 years ago now.  They lied about WiFi firmware updates to new standards and after a couple years in service, each switch or router stopped operating.


--- Quote ---I'm using a pfSense box as my L3 firewall (Router) , and currently have 14 Vlans  :scared:
I have spread my vlans over 3 physical firewall interfaces, and it performs nice.
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That is my plan.  Currently I have an old Pentium 4 box running pfSense but am going to replace it with an apu4d4.


--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on December 19, 2021, 10:08:20 am ---
--- Quote ---I see a lot of "Critical reported UI bugs" with NetGear ... Be aware, and update.
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Netgear have an atrocious record when it comes to firmware bugs.
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I liked their Bay Networks stuff in the metal boxes but repeated firmware problems and lack of support has soured me on Netgear.
paulca:

--- Quote from: bingo600 on December 19, 2021, 07:19:03 am ---Watch out for those TP-Link switches.
They used to have Vlan1 connected to all ports (non removable) , causing nasty leaks.

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They have worse "quirks" than that.  They have no way to set the management VLAN, so it listens on ALL VLANs.  Not only that, but it sends it's DHCP request from a random VLAN, so sometimes it was on the guest lan and sometimes on the lanlan.  I fixed it's IP to LAN IP, but it's technically still accessible if I readdress the machine on the guest, it can get the admin interface.

They also have a config quirk, where the PVID of an untagged port is not automatically assumed to be the default VLAN of that port.  ehhhh duh?
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