[PLUG] Are cheap switches with flawed VLANs safe enough?

Eric House eehouse at eehouse.org
Mon Jun 6 22:33:57 UTC 2022


I'm shopping for a new consumer-grade (i.e. cheap) switch for my home
network (with OpenWRT router). I'm using VLANs in that network and was
planning on getting
another switch that supports them but found some negative reviews
suggesting that the VLAN implementations in consumer grade switches from
both TP-Link and Netgear are insecure.

E.g.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3DZ73OOUR5Y9Y/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00K4DS5KU

Can anybody tell me how worried I should be about this? Should I:

* not worry about it

OR

* get unmanaged switches and keep my LAN and DMZ physically separated

OR

* invest in higher-end stuff (and learn to use it)

Thanks!

--Eric

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