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#217996 21-Jul-2017 16:57
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Hi guys,

 

I've put the following together based on the little knowledge I have of networking (it was a few years ago so I've forgotten a fair bit!), so keen to see if it holds water in principle.

 

Essentially, I want a primary LAN for trusted devices, with the two AP's on a single SSID (effectively zero hand-off or whatever they're calling it these days).  This will be for devices that I administrate, so I know are patched etc.  I'll apply a moderate degree of firewall restriction, but devices on this LAN will have pretty much unrestricted access to the internet and other devices on their subnet (a printer, and maybe a NAS down the line).

 

The VLAN is for higher-risk devices - family, friends etc, and IoT-like devices, which could be unpatched/have weird connectivity requirements.  In other words I'm trying to achieve protection for clients on the primary LAN by reducing/removing the ability for insecure devices to ingress should they be compromised.

 

 

 

If this all looks ok, I'll ask some more specific questions!!


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  #1826699 21-Jul-2017 17:29
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Looks like you have the right idea! Sufficiently techo for a geeks home network haha.

Have you already got the USG and cloud key? If not, and you want to be able to tinker a bit more maybe consider the EdgeRouter and a Edgeswitch - if you want to stick with UBNT. Otherwise a Mikrotik router. Unifi software is great but I personally think the routing/firewall and VLAN options are a little left to be desired for proper geekery - there are plenty who disagree and are happy with how unifi does it



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  #1826706 21-Jul-2017 17:56
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Depends if you need access to the IOT devices from your main network.  I've just been through this.

 

 

 

I have a main network (corporate in unifi speak), a guest network for wireless devices with an easy password.  Has no access to my main lan,

 

I've just made an IOT network.  It was guest, but then I couldn't allow access to it easily from my main lan (incoming only).  So I made it also a corporate network, and put in firewall rules that blocks it from accessing my main lan, but my main lan can access it.





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