Sterling,
We are using Calix, so this sounds like the solution. I'll dig a bit deeper in
to their docs.
Thanks to everyone.
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Mark mailto:[email protected]
Myakka Communications
www.Myakka.com
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 7:15:34 PM, you wrote:
> What equipment?
> Some types of equipment like our Calix XGSPON, handles this natively, so you
> can just use DHCP and it will already isolate the clients.
> We still have active ethernet in some parts of our network, so port isolation
> or switch port forwarding or similar items are what you are looking for
> without having to resort to fancy layer3 type stuff like that.
> But that all depends on the equipment of course. We use Mikrotik and UI and
> some FiberStore switches in our network, all of which do a form of isolation
> on layer2 natively. So when a client device looks at it's WAN network all it
> sees is the upstream devices and none of the other layer2 devices.
> From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Mark - Myakka Technologies
> via AF <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 2:38 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mark - Myakka Technologies <[email protected]>
> Subject: [AFMUG] ISP level DHCP server
>
> We have always used PPPoE in the past. Just happen to be what our first
> system 23 years ago was based on and we just stuck with it. We are setting
> up a new area with all new equipment. Looking at setting it up as DHCP.
> Looks like I can do some DHCP radius stuff and our new equipment will inject
> data via option 82 if I want.
> The issue I can't wrap my head around is security. If I just setup a normal
> DHCP server, all clients will be on the same LAN. That would not be good.
> I'm looking at option 121 and /32 addresses. But, I don't think all
> residential routers support 121.
> VLANs are another option, but I don think they will scale well.
> I feel like I'm missing some type of simple answer.
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> Thanks,
> Mark mailto:[email protected]
> Myakka Communications
> www.Myakka.com
> Serving Manatee and Sarasota Counties with High-Speed Internet for over 20
> years
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