If computers are in same network, even with different ip addresses, they still can see all broadcast and multicast traffic. This means for example dhcp.

If you fully trust your computers, and are sure that no external party can access any of them, you should be fine. But if anyone can gain access to any of your computers, it is trivial to gain access and sniff traffic in all networks.

If you need best security, multiple switches and multiple nics are unfortunately only really secure solution.

Luks FDE, and install dropbear-initramfs, configure ssh authorized_keys and rebuild initramfs. Then you can access initramfs via ssh to type luks password.

If you just rename the dir, and then find all broken symlinks in your system?

find . -xtype l