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Thanks for the replies.

Since the solution involves spending money and reading other people guides, I will simply bite the bullet and go with a Unify Gateway.

4) Best wishes. You need to think this through again.

Wait, did I upset or disrespected or offended you somehow?

I'm only looking for a simple solution to an issue which would help me remove extra hardware from the network and perhaps learn how to secure my network a bit more.

Something just occurred to me, the applications that need to talk to these IoTs should be able to continue working via web access.

But to keep this simple, lets forget the VLAN and Iot, how about replacing the switch by using the ports that already exist in my Router?

As mentioned, I only really need 2 ports, the NAS and the AP, the rest can use my wifi network.

How do I set those two ports?

I believe that I can create multiple SSIDs on this AP.

What I really dont know how to do is attach the AP physically to my Qotom, configure it in a way that it handles both subnets and allow my mobile devices to those IoT for monitoring.

Thank you, that provides some guidance.

Remember that I only have one AP and both the IoT and regular devices are using it.

So sadly, I'm not sure how to proceed with your steps 2 and 3.

Hi.

I have a Qotom firewall that has 6 ethernet ports but its not a switch.

I also have an unmanaged switch, a TP Link TL-SG1005D.

I currently have the following on my network:

1- NAS hardwired with several Docker containers.
2- 1 PC hardwired, but I am planning in moving it to wireless.
3- Omada EAP670 Access Point, controlled from a Docker container.
4- Wireless door bell.
5- Indoor wireless camera.
6- Multiple smart plugs by Tapo.
7- Phones and tablets.
8- TV and Streamer.
9- Wireguard server in the OPNSense firewall.

Besides the NAS, I will be moving to wireless since my needs allows it.

I want to eliminate the switch (if possible) and also, have the IoT devices separated from the rest of the network devices.

In the future, I will replace the firewall with another PC that will have 2.5Gb NICs but thats an upcoming project.

Suggestions as to how I can proceed?

Thanks.

PS Sorry but I am not a network expert so will definitely need some handholding in here.

Hello,

I have a Qotom firewall that has 6 ethernet ports but its not a switch.

I read that I can bridge them to use them as regular ports, but the performance will suffer.

The question is, how much using them will hurt?

The firewall has a     Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3865U @ 1.80GHz (2 cores, 2 threads) with 4 GBs ram and my usage is very basic.

I rarely do big transfers and dont have much running on the firewall itself besides Wireguard.

So how bad would it be if I bridge all ports?

Thanks in advance.