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Air gaping sACN Networks

Hi. 

Bit of an unusual question. At our venue, we have the Lighting network and the house Automation network running in the same subnet over the same switches. 

Since our integrator has the last word on switch configuration and IPs/Subnets, we are currently thinking about splitting the two networks physically so we can have our own switches. The problem with this is, that we lose control of the house lights and power relays from the Lighting desk, which is unacceptable. 

I was thinking about Air gaping both networks and then just "routing" sACN traffic across the two networks. Here's my idea 

1 Gateway configured as an output on the lighting network. 1 Gateway configured as input on the House network. Both gateways are connected via DMX cables. This way, you should be able to route 4 universes across the two networks while never merging subnets.

I was wondering if there is a product that imitates this kind of behaviour across all universes without the need to output to physical DMX. Or maybe theres a smarter option to do this inside a switch with VLAN routing.

Let me know what you think. 

Thanks. 

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  • 0 in reply to Theatermachine

    Right now this is just theory crafting.

    In the perfect world there would be a physical separation between the two networks, not only sub-netting/vlans, because right now we don't feel comfortable making Configuration changes on the switches, since this system is accessed by different departments and the integrator has exclusive control over static ips. 

    Sadly the EOS Ti enhanced only has two NICs which we are both already using. Apex is still some time out for us.

    I was really hoping theres some kind of device which off the shelf can route sACN between two NICs. I'm sure a PC could do this just fine but i don't like this option from a reliability standpoint. 

    Also, if we used two nics on the console id imagine there's gonna be problems with a Tracking Backup. Since if the Primary dies mid show all relays would de-energize if youre directly plugging into the desk.

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