Hello,
I'm running a small network with a Cisco SG500 switch and a RV042G router. Been reading up and now am so far that i can add vlan's, configure them and they work 😀 starting with 0 knowledge i am happy with myself so far 😛
My question is about the DHCP server, on the RV042G its just 1 range of 250 i can dish out. If i want a bigger pool should i then use the SG500 (in layer 3 mode) dhcp server as i see it can do alot more then just its own subnet.
When i first setup the switch i setup a different vlan for each user type: office, wifi, flex, camera's, intercom, voip
But then i learned about Private vlans and i just seemed better or simpler to use Private vlans and get 1 big pool.
As far as i understand so far: I create 1 primary Private vlan and assign secondary vlan to it. the secondary vlans i can set to either Isolated or community. To either create isolated ip's for my public wifi and community for the office, and another community for the camera's as they need to see each other.
In this example 20 would be my primary, 200 would be community 1, 201 community 2 and 202 the isolated for the wifi.
In the switch i would then assign 1 port as vlan 20 promiscus? and the rest as 200,201,202 depending on what i connected to it?
I'm starting to wrap my head around this but struggle in practice a bit. Also noticed the SG500 is not quite working as a Catalyst which is used in tutorials alot :S
I'm running a small network with a Cisco SG500 switch and a RV042G router. Been reading up and now am so far that i can add vlan's, configure them and they work 😀 starting with 0 knowledge i am happy with myself so far 😛
My question is about the DHCP server, on the RV042G its just 1 range of 250 i can dish out. If i want a bigger pool should i then use the SG500 (in layer 3 mode) dhcp server as i see it can do alot more then just its own subnet.
When i first setup the switch i setup a different vlan for each user type: office, wifi, flex, camera's, intercom, voip
But then i learned about Private vlans and i just seemed better or simpler to use Private vlans and get 1 big pool.
As far as i understand so far: I create 1 primary Private vlan and assign secondary vlan to it. the secondary vlans i can set to either Isolated or community. To either create isolated ip's for my public wifi and community for the office, and another community for the camera's as they need to see each other.
In this example 20 would be my primary, 200 would be community 1, 201 community 2 and 202 the isolated for the wifi.
In the switch i would then assign 1 port as vlan 20 promiscus? and the rest as 200,201,202 depending on what i connected to it?
I'm starting to wrap my head around this but struggle in practice a bit. Also noticed the SG500 is not quite working as a Catalyst which is used in tutorials alot :S
