I'm thinking about networking, and there is one thing* that is a mystery to me. Can someone please explain it in a very, very ELI5 way?
Let's say I have IP cameras, and adhering to good practices, they are on a separate VLAN, let's say 192.168.10.X.
And then I have another VLAN, 192.168.20.X for my laptop and my homelab server.
The server is running Frigate for the cameras.
So the cameras somehow would need to reach my server in another VLAN.
What is the correct, industry standard way to do it? Create routing to punch through VLANs? Connect my server to two VLANs (with two NICs?)
there are a lot of things in networking that are a mystery to me, but let's tackle them one thing at a time :)
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