I’m old school, the last router firmware I touched was ddwrt on a 54g. These days it seems openwrt is the way to go.

I’ve got an old Google WiFi that I just flashed over. I have a small managed switch in the mail. I want to play with VLANs. With only one lan port I’ll need to do trunking.

I’ve watched the videos, read some docs, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.

Right now I’m stuck on the idea that my router model might not even support it? I can’t find where I read that, but now I’m all turned around.

I’ll play with it when the switch arrives, surely I’ll figure it out eventually. but in the meantime, does anyone know if the Google WiFi router supports VLANs when flashed? Or is that a problem I made up?

Thanks!

  • thenextguyEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    I can’t think of any reason vlan support would be limited by hardware. It should be completely software defined.

    • theit8514English
      5·
      4 days ago

      Some consumer grade devices had unmanaged switches or hubs for their internal ports, with a single port presented to the device itself. In that case, the system can’t split the ports out to have vlans on individual ports. You could still accept multiple vlans, but it would only be on the one port.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      From the web for ddwrt:

      VLANs require a managed switch chip inside the router — typically Broadcom or Qualcomm/Atheros chips

      Mediatek or Realtek-based routers may have little to no VLAN support in DD-WRT builds.

      But I assume that is for Ethernet ports not WiFi?