You load 16 ports, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt

The 16 port PoE switch arrived today. With the exception of one adoption hiccup, it works really well and finally, all the VLANs are doing (mostly) what they are supposed to do. Now that the layer two works, I do still need to write firewall rules for them.

I configured DHCP to statically set the IP I wanted to use, so the switch came up where I wanted it to and I clicked Adopt and away it went. About 30 minutes later, it was obvious that it wasn’t going to complete that process, so I did a factory reset and had the controller forget it and this time, it completed the adoption process without further drama.

The only configuration I really needed was to make that one port where Starlink pops out on this end into a native VLAN 50. All the other ports would be just trunk ports. I did label a few ports.

I moved four cables over, the link to the workshop, the Starlink/WAN to the router, the LAN to the router and the laptop I was working from. The router had noted the loss of ping from Starlink and has switched to OneSource, so I had to jump in and force it to switch back, but otherwise everything worked perfectly and I moved the rest of the cables over and powered down the Cisco SG200.

I almost forget to test connecting my phone to the IoT WiFi, but I did and it worked, as expected. This is, afterall, one of the reasons I began this whole exercise. Victory dance!

I think the only thing left now is really more of an irritation than an issue.

When I moved the wiring over, I moved most of them over jack for jack, so port 4 happened to have the NAS connected to it and the controller (presumably) discovered it and helpfully labeled it. I decided to move it to port 10 to free up a PoE port, but it apparently is finished discovering and from what I can find thus far, it does not appear to be an end user editable field. That seems very unlikely but, so far, that is what I see so I am stuck with an empty port labeled with something that has been moved to another port which remains unlabeled.

Then again, it’s 2AM.