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🧠Full Network Engineering Project Documentation
Date Started: 18 April 2025
Date Completed: 1 June 2025
🔹 Overview
The goal of this project was to create a segmented home network using VLANs for main, IoT, and guest devices, with a Raspberry Pi acting as a router to manage traffic between them.
🧱 Steps Taken to Complete the Project
1. Initial Setup:
- Deployed a TP-Link TL-SG1016PE managed switch into a segmented network environment.
- Connected the main computer, Wireless Access Point (WAP), and Raspberry Pi to the switch via Ethernet.
- Linked the switch to the main router to allow upstream network access.
- Installed TP-Link Easy Smart Configuration Utility for GUI switch management.
- Assigned a static IP (192.168.50.10) to the switch, as its default IP (192.168.0.x) was in a different subnet from the main router’s network (192.168.50.x), making it inaccessible until corrected.
2. Wireless Access Point (WAP) Integration: