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connecting 2 managed switches?

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I currently have two 8-port un-managed switches (one in living room, one in office) that are connected by a single CAT6 cable I ran on the outside of the house. Each room has roughly 8 ethernet devices.

I want to utilize the guest network wifi feature on my apple airport express / pfsense setup, which from the documentation runs on a VLAN, thus I'm looking to purchase a managed switch to get this working. Also interested in setting up link aggregation for my file server (it has 2x intel network cards).

Would it work if i just got a single managed switch that has the airport and pfsense connected? Or would I need to replace both switches with managed ones? Also, am I going to be able to connect two managed switches and still have it all work?

I'm looking to purchase something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-8-Por...4016801&sr=8-1&keywords=tplink+managed+switch

Just want to make sure it will work out.
 
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you can have your dumb switch with your smart switch, but your 2nd unmanaged switch will only be on one VLAN or the other... depending on how you tag it's uplink on your smart switch...

any 2 switches should uplink with no issues with out of the box configs...
 
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