Home network: 2 LAN's on one network. Is it possible?

[Hectic]

You can do lots with consumer gear.

If you are still battling you can PM me

Thx Zizebra


However, with the patient help of Bern I managed to get it sorted.
A general lack of understanding how my router worked with VLAN and a dud LAN cable had me frustrated, but Bern kept at it and I'm a happy chappy.

Thx Bern.
If the forum had a rep system, I would rep you till the counter broke.

 

[Hectic]

You can do lots with consumer gear.

If you are still battling you can PM me

Thx Zizebra


However, with the patient help of Bern I managed to get it sorted.
A general lack of understanding how my router worked with VLAN and a dud LAN cable had me frustrated, but Bern kept at it and I'm a happy chappy.

Thx Bern.
If the forum had a rep system, I would rep you till the counter broke.

 

[Bern]

Thx Zizebra


However, with the patient help of Bern I managed to get it sorted.
A general lack of understanding how my router worked with VLAN and a dud LAN cable had me frustrated, but Bern kept at it and I'm a happy chappy.

Thx Bern.
If the forum had a rep system, I would rep you till the counter broke.

No worries, glad you managed to get it working!

 

[The_Ogre]

/OT

Why is he sleeping on the internet, instead of looking for a job?

 

[reactor_sa]

You need to use two routers, with different subnets.
Google for a ip address range calculator which will tell you what subnets and ip ranges go together.

 

[Bern]

You need to use two routers, with different subnets.
Google for a ip address range calculator which will tell you what subnets and ip ranges go together.

All sorted, most routers these days allow basic VLAN functionality allowing you to set up physical network interface groups. They will also then allow you to add separate networks (or subnetworks) to be associated with each "physical" network. By default the router will route between the two as they are directly connected, but you may be able to stop this using firewall (access control lists) rules.

In this case the second Billion router was used to purely extend the second VLAN on the main device and add a second wireless network (So extending the physical network in to wireless). The DHCP, routing etc functions were handled by the main device.

A major source of confusion on home devices is due to them actually doing multiple networking components in the same device, so a home ADSL router now days normally includes:
An ADSL modem
A router
A switch
A wireless access point
A firewall
A port and packet inspection service
Sometimes a web content management service proxy
and more!

To better understand what is going on you need to unpack these components to be able to configure.

reactor_sa I realise you know this, just using your post as an excuse to make these points.