I have a general network configuration question and have three 6450 switches in different locations because some parts of the house are old and others newer.
Currently internet comes into the house via cable company into a first floor closet. This is nowhere near the rest of the equipment so the open internet WAN connection travels up two stories to the attic above second floor, across 30 to 40 feet, then down two stories to a packed equipment cabinet that has mostly AV and automation gear. My pfsense box is in here. The LAN starts here with feed to the cabinet it’s in, and branching to other consumer switches via cat5e wires going to a second story new construction closet where my ‘home lab’ is, as well as back to the original closet where the cable came in to another small consumer switch that supplies the office computer next door to it.
The new setup has three 6450’s stacked, one in each of these locations, as soon as I run the fiber.
Can I segment off a vlan, say vlan999, for the WAN connection and eliminate my long cat5e run from the equipment cabinet to the router? Do I need to assign a vlan, say vlan10 to the remaining ports on the stacked switches if I do so? Or am I just asking for trouble?
Currently internet comes into the house via cable company into a first floor closet. This is nowhere near the rest of the equipment so the open internet WAN connection travels up two stories to the attic above second floor, across 30 to 40 feet, then down two stories to a packed equipment cabinet that has mostly AV and automation gear. My pfsense box is in here. The LAN starts here with feed to the cabinet it’s in, and branching to other consumer switches via cat5e wires going to a second story new construction closet where my ‘home lab’ is, as well as back to the original closet where the cable came in to another small consumer switch that supplies the office computer next door to it.
The new setup has three 6450’s stacked, one in each of these locations, as soon as I run the fiber.
Can I segment off a vlan, say vlan999, for the WAN connection and eliminate my long cat5e run from the equipment cabinet to the router? Do I need to assign a vlan, say vlan10 to the remaining ports on the stacked switches if I do so? Or am I just asking for trouble?