On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 08:02:40AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote:
Sounds like someone's getting caught up in the hype of a few buzzwords. I can't imagine where more than a couple bits of separately isolated networks in a home would be required. Most of those things you mentioned have no need to be isolated and are just being used to support a decision that was already made than evidence that lead to a decision.
I'm not advocating anyone do anything other than what best practices dictate, just that whomever came up with best practices got a little caught up in the moment.
You quickly run into religion here. I run my home as a big broadcast domain, but there's no reason I wouldn't perhaps segment things differently. There are a lot of people who just "extend their wifi" by plugging in a 2nd router with a long cable and don't realize they now have a new layer of nat, they just know the wifi by the $newRouter got better. Should I have a lan party VLAN/SSID? Perhaps, but for ease of use I let my AppleTV be on the same network as my iPhone so I can control them with the Remote app. Otherwise you quickly get into kinky broadcast relay or similar issues with multicast groups :) - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.