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    Switch capabilities of AIMesh Nodes?

    A recent thread (a very interesting one) started me off thinking about how under-utilized nodes appear to be, for 3006 FW based nodes in particular. I am reasonably sure I know what the answer is, but bear with me while I muse and ramble and throw my toys out of the pram. I’m starting to look...
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    Homekit help request on Asuswrt-Merlin 3006.102.4 Beta 2

    You’ll probably see me pulling my virtual hair out in the posts just referenced by bennor. It’s not fully resolved yet but having read hundreds of posts dating back ten years, and seen Home (HomeKit?) mentioned in some of them, I’d start by: adding the single avahi reflector back into the...
  3. J

    Beta Asuswrt-Merlin 3006.102.4 Beta is now available

    Putty.
  4. J

    RT-AX88U - AiMesh - TUF GAMING AX600 Problem

    Funniest post I’ve read for a while; love the metaphors 👍🏼. 🫏.
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    Managed or Unmanaged Switch for Multiple VLANs?

    Hmm? Sorry, I'm not sure what your point is; that the point of VLANs is to purchase sufficient managed switches to make it work? If that is the case then perhaps I need to decide whether to go that route or just suck it up and just let the ESP32s live on the Primary Network. It's not as neat...
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    mDNs / Bonjour / Multicast

    My apologies for the multiple posts across a few threads, this journey started with what GNP can do in your thread (and enabling inter-VLAN connectivity), then morphed into Chromecast connectivity which split into first an avahi component and now an mDNS one. Sure, thank you. See attached and...
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    Managed or Unmanaged Switch for Multiple VLANs?

    Yes Merlin certainly does that and does it especially well with an Addon. I use YazDHCP for the Primary network, even wrote a little Excel spreadsheet to make the custom_clients list to upload the Custom Client List and make Custom Icons. I use dnsmaq.conf.add (actually dnsmaq-1.conf.add and...
  8. J

    Setting up VLAN with AX11000 Pro and TP-Link 802.1Q managed switches

    Not in a position to answer your query but very interested in the setup and outcome as topology similar to mine, albeit for my scenario it appears I would need 5 managed switches, which starts getting expensive.
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    Help with Avahi mDNS redirector, please

    No problems, agree. Moved to here.
  10. J

    mDNs / Bonjour / Multicast

    I have moved my post from the Avahi thread as recommended by Colin, to here. See also some background here. I continue to be unable to Cast from my Primary Network to my IoT Network, despite the same working from Guest to IoT. mDNS on AsusWRT appears to be a two part solution,(I) enable the...
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    Managed or Unmanaged Switch for Multiple VLANs?

    I’m not 100% sure I follow, but what led me to ask the question is that I have Primary (192.168.9.xxx) and two GNP VLANs, Guest (VLAN52) and an IoT (VLAN53). I tried to manually assign an IP to the ESP32-Eth device in the Router (192.168.53.xxx) but when I (just for starters) attached it to my...
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    Trying to understand Guest Network Pro limitations

    Just a redirect post to an avahi thread and then an mDNS thread as while I believe my original post was on-topic, it veered off a little bit into mDNS usage for Chromecast which while it does use the IPTABLES recommendation from bennor (thank you again) has now veered OT into the avahi domain...
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    Managed or Unmanaged Switch for Multiple VLANs?

    Way over my head, but it seems like it might be possible. If I could somehow configure the Ethernet-connected ESP32 to be VLAN-aware, then that would be the ultimate solution here. Like I said, have not seen anything yet by way of a line in a HA yaml which will effect, this, but there's hope...
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    Managed or Unmanaged Switch for Multiple VLANs?

    Sure, thanks. Actually there's only the ESP32 Device and the Mesh Node, so it will be Ethernet_out_the_wall-to-ManagedSwitch-to-(a) Node and (b) ESP32. If adding managed switches is what I have to do, I am finding some irony in the fact that a Wifi based EPS32 can be configured to go straight...
  15. J

    RT-BE88U Main Wifi Smart Connect

    Yeah that’s how to test a guest… take away their Wi-Fi ;-)
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