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Hello,
I am planning to setup an IPS for my network and therefore using my now gateway (rt-n66u) as AP. Additionally I want to introduce VLANs for better segmentation. Now I want to ask a few questions before I flash/reconfigure my router:
I hope I included all necessary information and I look forward to your answers!
Best regards
I am planning to setup an IPS for my network and therefore using my now gateway (rt-n66u) as AP. Additionally I want to introduce VLANs for better segmentation. Now I want to ask a few questions before I flash/reconfigure my router:
- Which firmware is best suited for my needs, especially VLAN support and good WLAN performance/features (e.g. guest/hotspot network, etc.) ?
- I have considered using Shibbys Tomato because it has a GUI for VLAN Setup.
- I think all three? (OpenWRT, Tomato, Merlin) of the popular firmwares support VLAN, I am not afraid of configuration via SSH but a GUI would be nice.
- I don't know anything about the performance differences of the said versions.
- Are there any major up/downsides to any of these firmwares?
- Does the Gbit switch work when setting the router to AP-mode?
- How free can VLANs be configured, e.g will I be able to set a trunk port that connects to my main switch and is it possible to configure different VLANs for guest an normal WLAN?
I hope I included all necessary information and I look forward to your answers!
Best regards