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Hi, i have an SmartTV and i dont trust him. So i dont want him to connect to my home network (sensible data), but he should be able to connect to the internet through the same router as my home network does. i have an managable hp switch where my home network is connected and the SmartTv, and i have the WRT54GL Router with Tomato shibby edition.
so how can i do it? create 2 subnets in the router, so each one can use the wan but are separated from each other. Or should i create vlan's in the router and they should use the one wan is provided?
is it complicated? have i to set the firewall, start scripts or set routes? or is there a simple solution?

Hello pred7,

What's the name of your SmartTV? Since you say its a "him" so "he" must have a name :D Lol ! Sorry, just had to pull a short one on you for a moment. Well, you can create additional VLAN on WRT54GL for your SmartTV and assign a static IP , gateway, DNS on your SmartTV. You dont have to run additional DHCP configuration for the TV VLAN because its just one device. I am certainly pleased to know that you are still using that WRT54GL router which is still the greatest device there is in terms of reliability and service.

There are quite a lot of VLAN discussion on this forum. Dont forget to check out the Tutorial section on the left side of this page.

Have a great day!