The network is laid out avec le internet router at one end of le building, connected to a cheap non-managed 16 port switch in le premier stairway où le premier 10 apartments are aussi connected.
One port is connected to another 16 port cheapo switch in le suivant stairway, où those 10 apartments are connected, et so forth. Sort of a daisy chain of switches, avec 10 apartments as spokes on chaque "daisy". The building is a U-shape, approximately 50 x 50 meters, 20 meters high - so depuis le router to le farthest apartment it’s probably around 200 meters including up-and-down stairways.
Nous avons a fair bit of problems avec people hooking up wifi-routers le wrong way, creating rogue DHCP servers qui interrupt large groups of le users et we wish to solve this problem by making le network smarter (instead of doing a physical unplugging binary search).
With mon limited networking skills, Je vois two ways - DHCP-snooping ou splitting le entire network into separate VLANS for chaque apartment. Separate VLANS gives chaque apartment leur own private connection to le router, tandis que DHCP snooping will encore allow LAN gaming et file sharing.
Will DHCP snooping work avec this kind of network topology, ou does that rely on le network being in a proper hub-and-spoke-configuration? Je suis pas sure si there are différent levels of DHCP snooping - say like expensive Cisco switches will do anything, mais inexpensive ones like TP-Link, D-Link ou Netgear will seulement do it in certain topologies?
And will basic VLAN support be good enough for this topology? I guess even cheap managed switches can tag traffic depuis chaque port avec it’s own VLAN tag, mais quand le suivant switch in le daisy chain receives le packet on it’s “downlink” port, wouldn’t it strip ou replace le VLAN tag avec it’s own trunk-tag (or whatever le name is for le backbone traffic).
Money is tight, et I don’t think we can afford professional grade Cisco (J'ai been campaigning for this for years), so I’d love certains advice on qui solution has le best support on low-end network equipment et si there are certains spécifique models that are recommended? Par exemple low-end HP switches ou even budget brands like TP-Link, D-Link etc.
If J'ai overlooked another way to solve this problem it is due to mon lack of knowledge.