Matt.Rowley.1990
Super Pro Member
Please excuse the slight messiness but I believe this is what you need in order to be able to place the Asus router in the basement. Let me try and explain...
The ONT will be directly connected to the first smart switch on the switch's port 1. Port 1 will be an untagged port assigned to VLAN 1. Port 2 on the first smart switch will be a tagged port and tagged to VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. All other ports on this switch will be untagged ports, assigned to VLAN 2.
See where this is going?..
The second switch will have port 1 tagged to VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. Port 7 will be untagged and assigned to VLAN 1 and port 8 will be untagged and assigned VLAN 2. Ports 7 and 8 represent the WAN and LAN going into your Asus router. All other ports on this switch will be untagged and assigned VLAN 2.
What we've effectively done is use 2 VLANs to separate WAN and LAN traffic along the same ethernet cable; VLAN 1 representing WAN traffic and VLAN 2 representing LAN traffic. This should work absolutely fine and is the sort of thing VLANs were designed for. As I mentioned previously, the only downside is that everything is effectively sharing the 1gbps ethernet link between the two smart switches. This may be absolutely fine and still meet your needs.
The ONT will be directly connected to the first smart switch on the switch's port 1. Port 1 will be an untagged port assigned to VLAN 1. Port 2 on the first smart switch will be a tagged port and tagged to VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. All other ports on this switch will be untagged ports, assigned to VLAN 2.
See where this is going?..
The second switch will have port 1 tagged to VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. Port 7 will be untagged and assigned to VLAN 1 and port 8 will be untagged and assigned VLAN 2. Ports 7 and 8 represent the WAN and LAN going into your Asus router. All other ports on this switch will be untagged and assigned VLAN 2.
What we've effectively done is use 2 VLANs to separate WAN and LAN traffic along the same ethernet cable; VLAN 1 representing WAN traffic and VLAN 2 representing LAN traffic. This should work absolutely fine and is the sort of thing VLANs were designed for. As I mentioned previously, the only downside is that everything is effectively sharing the 1gbps ethernet link between the two smart switches. This may be absolutely fine and still meet your needs.























