https://trustserv.de/en/tags/mab/ Recent content in Mab on trustserv.de Hugo en-US Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0200 https://trustserv.de/en/post/homelab-teil-9/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0200 https://trustserv.de/en/post/homelab-teil-9/ <h2 id="what-this-is-about"> What this is about <a class="heading-link" href="#what-this-is-about"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p><a href="https://trustserv.de/en/post/homelab-teil-7/" >Part 7</a> ends with a piece of advice: for devices that can&rsquo;t do 802.1X, plan a second SSID with a classic shared key, hardwired to an untrusted VLAN.</p> <p>I didn&rsquo;t take my own advice.</p> <p>The reason is the same one I used in part 1 to argue against one SSID per VLAN: once the assignment is glued to the SSID, every additional trust level needs another SSID. My AV receiver and my games console both lack 802.1X, but they are explicitly <strong>not</strong> supposed to share a network. A hardwired SSID would have given me exactly the catch-all VLAN I set out to get rid of.</p>