More options for multiple network interfaces

Feature Requests
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I think a lot of people that likes to tinker with their home has some kind of VLANS configured for various reasons. For some devices to work properly home assistant has to be on the same subnet (not devices that uses MDNS).

I have managed to do this by adding a virtual network interface and then selecting it in the network settings. But I feel like it’s a black hole now, It would be neat to be able to say "Use this interface only to listen to devices/discover) Since it’s easy to setup firewall rules such that .20 network can answer to connections established by a .1 device.

So basically I would like to see more options for configuring multiple network interfaces to be able to lockdown and have more insight to what home assistant uses the different interfaces for.

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Don’t forget to vote yourself

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Just bumping this as this looks like a cool idea and not 100% sure it’s been implemented.
Especially with Matter liking a “flat” network, it is now necessary for Home Assistant to reside on the IoT Network (VLAN) but for dashboards to still be accessible on the main secure network without needing to mess around with firewall rules, which can get complex.

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Yup… being able to tag which interfaces do what would be really nice, for example, to make sure that H-A is doing its mdns advertisement on the vlan where my client devices are.

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