By security issues I was thinking something like a MAC flooding or any kind of denial of service which could compromise the switch access so I would have the internal LAN exposed. Is this make sense?
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Marcelo Zilio wrote: > > There is an option they supply the switch too. >> The first thing that came to mind is security issues since we are >> connecting >> Internet and Local Network to the same switch inside the network. >> > > That's like saying there is a security risk in running two phonecalls in > the same T1/E1. They're logically separated, it's commonly done. > > > The question is: Is this a common practice? How do you handle with this >> scenario? >> > > Usually I'd say that the ISP will solve the handoff by having a switch or > media converter to give you one port per service, but using vlans for > logical separation has been pretty much standard procedure for 10 years in a > lot of places. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
