AlexisColoun

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Unmanaged PoE powered switch in c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
[–] AlexisColoun@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

TL-SG2008 v3 from TP link, while it is managed, you could simply deactivate all extras

So, the new dumbening of electronics is happening in c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
[–] AlexisColoun@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Search engine "optimization"

Router vs Switch - I am still confused in c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
[–] AlexisColoun@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You have one pipeline to the Internet that is 100 Mbps wide and it doesn't matter if you put the split of this bandwidth in your router or your switch. At some point all your systems will have to share this 100 Mbps between them.

And this shares are dynamic. If one device currently only uses 10 Mbps, the remaining 90 are free to be used by all the other devices. (highly simplified)

And actually, if your router has more then one lan port, chances are high that this is a switch within your router.

What's your network failover solution ? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] AlexisColoun@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

A pile of shame, consisting of all the books I bought and haven't read yet.

Ring Topology with two Omada switches and OPNsense FW in c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
[–] AlexisColoun@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Not exactly what I wanted to achieve with my idea, but it seems that my idea is not feasible. But thank you, for your answer.

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Ring Topology with two Omada switches and OPNsense FW (alien.top)
 

Right now, I am in the process of redesigning my network and I had the Idea to connect my two main switches and my FW with a ring like topology. I know that in a typical home network with a 50/10 WAN connection this is absolutely unnecessary. I want to do this anyway, for learning and bragging purpose.

Assuming that I have several VLANs and on each switch at least one device in each VLAN. All Connections between the two switches and the FW are trunk routes for all VLANs. The Omada Controller is running virtualized on a server connected to one of the switches.

My Goal is to distribute traffic over all connections to avoid bottlenecks. I don't want traffic for devices within the same subnet to flow through FW and I don't want Internet traffic flow through the connection between switches.

I first read the LACP documentation for omada and OPNsense, but it is mostly intended for two or more lines between two devices and not for a ring topology like I want.

I then read the (R)STP documentation and couldn't find an option that doesn't simply cut one connection, but "directs" traffic base on the shortest route.

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Did I miss something in the documentation, should I look at another protocol/option, or is this something prosumer hardware like I use simply isn't capable of?