[ale] slightly OT: network structure

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 sangell at nan.net wrote:

> 
> IMHO, it sounds to me like you were more on the correct path when you
> mentioned the swith and vlan. If you set up a vlan off of a single port on
> a managed switch you might have to set up an addition linux (or other)
> router but the vlan would totally seclude the 2k box from the other
> systems.

Keep in mind that Linux actually has (since 2.4.14, I think) built-in 802.1q 
implementation.  See <http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear/vlan.html> for the 
user-space software you need along with the kernel support.

later,
chris


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