neidu2 ,

I’m not that picky in terms of eouters, as long as it is rack mounted. I happen to use a Fortigate 101E that was no longer needed at work.

While it does support VLAN, I don’t do that on the router, as Fortigate can be a bit of a pain in the ass when it comes to VLAN tagging. I instead have dedicated ports for the various network I serve, each of which connect to the same switch.

On this switch I have each of those uplink tagged as access ports for the VLANs they represent. Then the remaining ports can be tagged as I please. A few extra patch cables, but only dealing with VLAN tags on aruba makes it so much better.

As for PoE, that’s best done on a switch. My Aruba powers all of my access points this way.

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