Safely connect two random Networks
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Hello TP-Link Community
I am a German user, however I am going to post in English to address a larger group of people. I have the situation to setup a network for a two family home. The purpose of the network is to connect the building services (heating, solar power etc) with each other and also to connect the video door station to the two apartments. One of the two apartments will be used by the owner. Now I need a connection between the two apartment networks to the house-network, so that teach resident has access to the video door station with his mobile devices and with the KNX visualization server but not to the building services or the other apartment. The one apartment that is occupied by the owner of the house should have access to the building services.
Now I know this could easily be done using VLANS but the residents of the two apartments should decide on their own which hardware they are using and therefore I cannot foresee if this hardware is able to handle VLANS. I also do not want to have to make adjustments if the hardware changes, it should be plug and play.
My guess is that I need a LAN connection between the apartments and the house-network that connects to a central ER7206+OC200. Let's assume port 1 is the house-network, port 2 the video door station, port 3 apartment 1 and port 4 apartment 2. There will be the following rules:
- Allow traffic between port 3 and port 2
- Allow traffic between port 4 and port 2
- Allow traffic between port 3 and port 1
- Allow traffic from device IP#.#.#.# behind port 1 and port 2 (if I want to provide access to certain devices, for example a wallbox)
- Block traffic between port 3 and 4
Or is this thought too simple especially because the apartment networks will have different IPs than the house-network?
Thanks in advance!
