I’m yet to implement this.
I haven’t purchased the stuff in the yellow.
Is this secure?
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Bump hgftiih
Where’s the gateway/router?
Looks good! Are those fully managed switches or the little metal boxes that tplink makes?
That would be the load balancer!
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Check the updated image. Ideally, the load balancer will dial the internet and be the gateway.
Managed switches like:
Let me know if my choices are wrong.
Can anyone tell me what kind of POE injector, splitter I should be using here?
TP Link x60 require 12v x 2A = 24W to operate.
I want to power both of these mesh nodes from the main server point only for the battery backup purpose.
I don’t think cheap passive injectors that look like below are any good, as they are limited to 100mbps, correct?
As long as you have a single vlan in a switch, they’re good. They will randomly get dhcp leases from any vlan that offers them and all vlans have access to the web interface. I have about six of them, I like them.
All passive poe injectors are limited to 100mbps, it’s because they’re passive (ha) so data uses half the conductors while power uses the other half.
There are hybrid poe adapters that I really like, they take active poe from a poe switch and output 12v and 100mbit ethernet.
There are also nonstandard/proprietary poe devices that come in pairs, injector and splitter, those can be gigabit.
That’s a lot of power even for active poe, it’s usually limited to 15w per port.
You’ll need a nonstandard injector like ones from ubquiti.
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How about this one.
But I can’t seem to find a splitter for this poe+ injector.
Damn! Didnt know we have such low cost managed switches available here. I paid so much custom duty on the switches I imported just for the LACP 
Any specific reason why you would need two internet access points? Are they like different ISPs?
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I would buy an used enterprise switch rather than deal with TP-Link router or switches .
I like the cisco small business router RV042 , but let me tell you the load balancer stuff is not done . Only 1 line will work at a time . So no point getting 2 fibre connections unless it is extremely important . I would suggest 1 fibre and 1 GSM rather .
Deco X60 LAN port support PoE - Home Network Community This says the x60 does not support PoE
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those aren’t really managed switches. others can tell more about it.
if you really want a managed switch then you’d be better off buying a used enterprise switch as suggested by @yugaaa
I basically wanted LACP, which this supports.
If you’re earning 5 or 6 figures from WFH, two internet connections is the bare minimum. I have a few, it’s because I go through the FUP easily. They are in a round-robin setup, each unique source/destination ip/port combination uses the next ISP, one after another until it loops back.
And at least one is a different ISP in case there’s an outage.
For example, during this monsoon season, the municipality people went around and cut down every cable they could from electrical poles, fiber and non-fiber, because a few people were electrocuted by hanging wires. About 40% of the inner city was without fiber internet, what did work was the lan cable from the other backup ISP I have.
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If it absolutely needs to be powered by poe, you might need to run two cables with passive poe adapters and use a y-cable to join both.
A different option might be to have it plugged in to mains power with a router UPS in between if you want it online during power outages.
@yugaaa you know where I can get a used enterprise-level switch?
you can get them from server basket. enquired about 4-8 port switch and they sent me a quote for a 48 port PoE switch
Which location are you from ? If you are fine with shipping , I can give you contact in Chennai and Blr .
Wow .. price is too high . I remember 3850 at significantly lower price . That was a few years back though .
Why do you need managed switches in the first place? The left switch is entirely vlan B, the right is entirely VLAN A, you can just assign the the vlans at the router.
That’s why the injector + splitter combo.
Anyway, I have dropped this idea. There are no splitters available in India from a reasonable brand at a reasonable price supporting IEEE 802.3at (poe+)
What are the pros of using a used enterprise switch over, let’s say, a new L2 managed consumer switch?
Do I need a PhD in networking for configuring an enterprise switch?
It’s not just vlan.
I need to cut off the internet for IP cameras for safety reasons while keeping it on for the NVR.
The doorbell will have internet access, but it will be on its own VLAN, isolated from the internal network for security purposes.
If I configure vlan from the load balancer, it won’t have control over the ports of unmanaged switches.
Just talking about vlan, I think anyone can break into any vlan they like with a static IP address; that’s not safe.
I think I need the following functionality from the switch:
- vlan
- port security
- DHCP snooping
- QoS