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The HP ProCurve 1810G-8 (J9449A) is a nice little 8 port managed switch. No fans and similar in size to a FireBrick.

 

The FireBrick will have a single WAN port, which will plug in to the HP Switch. The ADSL/FTTC modems will plug in to the HP Switch too.

This will then, with VLANs, enable the FireBrick to use up to 7 ADSL/FTTC modems.

*Default Password is blank

 

To make things a little easier, here is a saved config: [[File:FBVLANconfig1810G.bin.zip]]. It is the default config (default IP and password), but with VLANs as follows:

*Port 1 - VLAN 101, for ADSL line 1

However it only takes a few minutes to set up the VLANs manually as follows:

 

*Set your computer to an IP in the same subnet as the switch, eg. 192.168.2.11

*Plug computer in to a port, eg. port 7

*Enable HTTPS (Security - Secure Connection) generate certificate and apply

 

We will set ports 1-4 to be VLANs 101, 102, 103, 104. We'll port 8 for plugging in to the FireBrick, and port 7 for our admin.

 

*SAVE CONFIG - otherwise you will learn the hard way

 

In order to access the Switch, we'll need to setup a interface on the FireBrick with a subnet in the same range as the switch. We can use the default 192.168.2.0/24, and this will be accessible from the LAN side.

Alternately, we can use a public /30. This will involve a new /30 allocation on Clueless, routed to all the ADSL/FTTC lines, and on the FireBrick a subnet on the WAN interface.