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Hey everyone
First post here, banging my head against a wall so figured I'd post and see if anyone has any advice for me. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have a PC running OPNSense, trunking VLANs to a managed switch which works great. Due to the cost of power and the amount of draw the managed switch takes, I bought a couple unmanaged switches (one 8-port, one 9 port POE) along with a 4-port PCIe network card. My hope was to have one LAN port for the unmanaged switch for general networking, and one other for the POE switch which will power some IP Cams. I've read from some peoples posts that bridges aren't well supported, and others that say multiple LAN ports isn't a great idea (wish I had of researched more before making purchases, but here I am). Tried using ChatGPT but have had no luck there.
Right now, all I want is to separate out LAN (re0), and CAM (re1). LAN should have normal internet access, but access to CAM should be restricted to RTSP to NVR (on LAN at the moment) and NTP to the router.
I'm not really up to snuff on my networking, this is as much of a learning opportunity as it is functional. I can share what I've tried so far, but I'm hoping to get an opinion from someone more knowledgeable on how they would recommend setting this up, or if it's even feasible to do without just trunking all the traffic to a managed switch.
Thanks
First post here, banging my head against a wall so figured I'd post and see if anyone has any advice for me. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have a PC running OPNSense, trunking VLANs to a managed switch which works great. Due to the cost of power and the amount of draw the managed switch takes, I bought a couple unmanaged switches (one 8-port, one 9 port POE) along with a 4-port PCIe network card. My hope was to have one LAN port for the unmanaged switch for general networking, and one other for the POE switch which will power some IP Cams. I've read from some peoples posts that bridges aren't well supported, and others that say multiple LAN ports isn't a great idea (wish I had of researched more before making purchases, but here I am). Tried using ChatGPT but have had no luck there.
Right now, all I want is to separate out LAN (re0), and CAM (re1). LAN should have normal internet access, but access to CAM should be restricted to RTSP to NVR (on LAN at the moment) and NTP to the router.
I'm not really up to snuff on my networking, this is as much of a learning opportunity as it is functional. I can share what I've tried so far, but I'm hoping to get an opinion from someone more knowledgeable on how they would recommend setting this up, or if it's even feasible to do without just trunking all the traffic to a managed switch.
Thanks
