>> Since a new networkcable is practically impossible, I'll assign 4 >> wires to each (that way I'll be limited to 100mbit - but that's enough >> for either settop & other peripherals that resides under the tv)... >> I splitted an 8-wire cable before, into two pairs of 100mbit, >> succesfully - and reading Vick's comment... i'll jump out of the idea >> with vlans :) > > In my humble 0.02CHF I'd rather share 1x Gigabit Ethernet in 2 VLANs > than to have 2x 100Mbps physically divided... > Put a small managed switch under the tv (I used a linksys slm2008 for > that) and split the trunk in the required vlans. Use another managed > switch or pfsense itself on the other end. >
Aarno, I have two HP Procurves (1810G) for this reason... I am aware on how VLAN should work, but the trunking part is somewhat "woozy" for me. But I've been reading, and it seems that this is merely for adding up channels (up to 4) to have a greater bandwidth between them... However, I would be able to only use one trunk in between the two switches - and I can add VLAN's to the trunk - but after that, all communications get lost (as I also change the port where I'm managing (not a good point apparently)). So if I would do it right, I lose one port on each switch, for management reasons. That leaves me at the end 4 available ports on each switch - or is this wrong seen ? One management port (when things start to go wrong, I could just hook up a laptop or something) One uplink port (to be seen as a trunk, with the default VLAN1 for the settopbox - and VLAN1001 for normal LAN) One port for the cable modem (on one end, the other end would be hooked up to the settopbox) One port for the LAN side of the PFSENSE (I gather, that I here change the VLAN to something else, and that all other ports are tagged for that VLAN port ?) I'll give it a try tomorrow... On the other end, putting things at a 100mbit isn't that bad - the cable modem is capped at 12mbit - so it wouldn't hurt that much. And the playstation to stream stuff from a freenas server (that might give something - but I'm sure that 100mbit for normal videos would still be enough) It's still better as wireless :) Michel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
