<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 8:42 PM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">{snip}<br><div>
I hate that people can be so silly designing routers. The switch part<br>
of a router should never be affected by the WAN being down. So the<br>
solution here would be to use a separate simple switch with only a<br>
single connection from it to the LAN ports on the router. Or get a<br>
really good switch that does full VLANs and IGMP and can run multiple<br>
subnets for you if you need that. I run my network with three<br>
subnets: Inner (which is the main subnet with all the devices that are<br>
trusted), Outer (for guests) and IoT (for all the untrusted devices,<br>
which are not allowed to even talk to each other, let alone the other<br>
subnets). All three subnets have separate WiFi SSIDs to keep them<br>
separate there also.</div></blockquote><br><div>I totally agree. Thankfully this is just a temp setup while I'm away working but will be ditching the all-in-one router setup when I get back home. <br></div></div></div>