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

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Mon Jun 6 23:16:07 UTC 2022


There are some switches supported in OpenWrt. I have, for example,
some Netgear GS108Tv3, based on a RealTek rtl838x. There are a bunch
of others supported with the same family of chips.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:34 PM Eric House <eehouse at eehouse.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> My g-bike can trounce your e-bike!



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