Hello, I've been reading the forum for a bit now as well as some other sites. I have a growing network and would like to implement some vlans. Ideally I want to have 3, VLAN 10, VLAN 20 and VLAN 30. For equipment I have an rt-ac66u with merlin on it, zyxel gs1900-8hp and a netgear jgs524-100nas. The network consists of multiple computers, raspberry pis, smart tv, ip cameras, eyezon, ata and a Wap. I first tried to leave the router alone and do everything from the two switches. Setting up the vlans in the switches and the trunk port to connect the switches was straight forward. I was able to ping devices within a vlan no problem however I was not able to get Internet access on any of the vlans.
After this I figured the missing link must be between the first switch and the router. This turned me onto merlins firmware so I would be able to create a trunk port on the router itself. I've tried the robocfg vlan x ports "x" followed by vconfig add vlan eth0 x. All this did was lock me out of the router. I did some more reading and apparently I should be using ppp0 instead of eth0 because I have a pppoe connection to my router. I tried that had the same results. I'm confused about the proper commands to use, it seems some are using nvram commands instead of robocfg.
Once the vlans are setup I would also like to separate them with .10., .20. and .30. for the ip addresses. I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff here and I hope somebody can give me a push in the right direction. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks
After this I figured the missing link must be between the first switch and the router. This turned me onto merlins firmware so I would be able to create a trunk port on the router itself. I've tried the robocfg vlan x ports "x" followed by vconfig add vlan eth0 x. All this did was lock me out of the router. I did some more reading and apparently I should be using ppp0 instead of eth0 because I have a pppoe connection to my router. I tried that had the same results. I'm confused about the proper commands to use, it seems some are using nvram commands instead of robocfg.
Once the vlans are setup I would also like to separate them with .10., .20. and .30. for the ip addresses. I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff here and I hope somebody can give me a push in the right direction. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks
