Buy Managed Switch or cheep router with managed switch capabilities?
Right now I have a 1Gbit speed I have a Opensense box as router and then a old router with openwrt as a switch to a OpenWRT AP. My OpenWRT "switch" could mabye do the job its a D-Link DWR-116. I haven't played allot with the settings mabye I could turn off unessential stuff?
If I need to buy something new the performance criteria would be, that it can do 1Gbit speed in and split it in min 3-4, It needs to handel 3 VLANs. Where one port gets several VLAN in and out.
Thanks in Advanced
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As long as you only need switching and no routing -- for example, have a fast box in front that does the routing and use this new device for just creating a network of ports -- you can go with any of the Realtek boards mentioned having OpenWrt support here: https://svanheule.net/switches/models
There should be no need for routing i would have a I7 second gen 16GB ram Box infront of it
I use TP-Link WDR3600's as "managed" switches (actually, the correct term is glorified smart switch).
It can do everything needed; L2 switching including both port based and tagged VLANs. Full speed per port (5 port = 10gbps combined switch throughput). Can even ebtables to filter layer 2 traffic. Can even do Layer 3 management, including routing and NAT (about 350mbps NAT, 570mbps routed non NAT). They also have modest WiFi, useful as bridges for DCWAPD PtP (150mbps 2.4 + 300mbps 5GHz (WiFi 4)).
OP doesn't care about the features, OP only needs a switch that can run OpenWRT.
Get the Mikrotik switch, they are cheap and with more useful features.
Can't be bought from where i live Sweden some companys should sell them but they don't not the small ones that are some what a fordable. Also don't think it would let me use another software aka not free as in freedom.
Not sure about Sweden, but I can go on Amazon and search for "managed 5 port switch" and get lots of results for less then $50. Many of them appear to have good vlan support.
I had a cheap netgear one that used an app to manage it, no web interface, but I found a mikrotik one at the local goodwill and I've been using that ever since.
I need it openscource min