@WallyR ah ok ya i basiclly understood that about the 255.255.255.255 broadcasts its the way ou said it all what i trying to segment my network and also “you have already gained the effect of limiting the broadcast domain” is what i was really asking for what you mean cuz to me didnt make sense… my disylexia gets in the way i write it the way i think it should sound but gets confusing for someone else…
i did find a link where they modify home assistant to detect vlan stuff… but apparently it doesnt work anymore
Setup VLAN and HA tutorial - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)
and i was on the pfsense forums but they didnt help much… and i said i better off to just expand my network… but i also was told i should break up my network
my current way of doing my IoT lan vpn dmz gaming
is i split up my 192.168.0.1 to 254 in segaments… so i made 1-20 say for servers etc… 21-50 for non vpn 51-200 for IoT Devices 201-254 for Vpn clients… basiclly like that… then was told on pfsense in the past that i shouldnt do it… that way that you want vlans…
and then i thought once vlans are setup and home assistant has 3 network cards in it… that at boot… instead of home assistant just scanning 192.168.0.x network it would be scanning 192.168.0.x 192.168.10.x and 192.168.20.x at boot up… is what i thought it would be doing so it would scan the first network… then when its done it scans the 2nd network then it would scan 3rd network…
but your saying i should do what i been doing just expand more… to a /23 or 22 i just liked how the vlan worked … setup the dhcp as what i do for each one is a dhcp then reservation it… to get it in the range but i basiclly ran out and now my iot devices are on my VPN network
but ya orginally i thought it was just that simple but the link i provided i guess did that it made home assistant be able to scan the vlans to find cameras… but the link inside the link doesnt work anymore and people reporting the trick doesnt work anymore…
but ya i orginally squezzed it in /24 network but then was told i should be using vlans but then ha just didnt scan them and even if they pre setup on the LAN and i moved them over to Vlan’s ha doesnt see the ip changes… and then on pfsense forums they said maybe you can manually change the IPs of the Iot and Cameras to move them from LAN to Vlans but i dont know if you can do that?
and they didnt tell me about routing just about msdn and avihi something and i only part way through the lawerence video above i got linked to watch…
guess nothing perfect… and i always learning… and least you went in depth more which i appreciate too…
oh and i also thought for auto discovery for reolink the broadcast is set for 255.255.255.255 i thought that supposed to cover ip range like 1.1.1.1 to 255.255.255.254 if you had that on your network so i though that should scan my 3 network interfaces least thats what i thought