The Smart Home Project

As part of my Smart Home build, I need a proper network with segregated sub-networks for our computers, IoT & media devices, management and, of course, guests. The full network design and decision process will be the subject of another post, but I obviously need wi-fi - at least 3 different wi-fi networks in fact.  All the forum posts and information I can find say that the R9000 doesn't support VLANs in dd-wrt. I need VLAN support so that I don't have to have 3 or more different APs (one for each network SSID). Looking at the hardware spec (and the fact that the stock firmware supports limited VLANs), I figured that it should support VLANs, so I trawled the forums, looked at the code and learned about the toolsets included in dd-wrt and I made it work!  This post covers how I set up VLANs on my Netgear R9000 Nighthawk X10 in dd-wrt. I'm sure you will want a different setup (in fact this isn't my final setup either, but it shows the principle).  Pre-requisites I am ...