Yonder thoughts

I have to say that my home network is quite overkill as it is right now. Ill try to explain how it is set up here, and also talk about some of the quirks and pains about setting it up.

Some time a go, my student association got some Cisco Catalyst 2900XLs donated from a company. As the association dont have any immediate use for them im borrowing one at home to play and learn a bit Cisco/IOS.
At first i only created two VLANs and using a router between the two VLANs for managing client traffic.
But now, after reading a bit up on creating a wifi hot spot ive begun to learn much more about VLANs, trunking and VLAN tagging.

So now things look like this;
VLAN3: (Internet< ->catalyst)
FBSD: (TRUNK VLAN 2,3,4 Bridge VLAN2 and 3, NAT VLAN 4)
VLAN2: Desktop and File server
VLAN4: Nated wireless network with Laptop


One thing which was quite a quirk, and which i used hours to figure out was that you have to do a ifconfig vlanX up on the FBSD box to enable the VLAN devices. As im primary a Linux user im used to that devices shown with ifconfig are infact enabled.

Creating a “public” hot spot is a bit on ice until i can find some other software then Chillispot for managing clients, since it didnt seem to work like expected.
It might just have been me failing to do some address translation or something, but ill see what i can do about CoovaChilli, the fork of Chillispot later on.