On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:26:02 -0400, Outback Dingo <outbackdi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
we dont have VLAN capable switches
I rather doubt that. Every tom dick and harry switch manufacturer of even
the cheapest PoS I've run across knows what to do with VLAN tags. What you
can't do, is control at the port level which VLANs are accepted or
rejected or choose between access/trunk/general mode. Basically the SOHO
switches run in General mode with a PVID of 1.
If you want VLAN tags in such an environment you have to set them at the
Operating System. Have you tried that?
Switches are dirt cheap. Even if you do have the world's sorriest excuse
of switching technology, go on ebay or your electronics store and for
quite less than $500 get yourself a proper switch. Whinging about CS
requiring VLANs is not going to accomplish anything when the correct
solution is to spend a very small amount of money, is just silly.
You shelled out for VTx capable CPUs and a few fat sticks of RAM didn't
you? That costs a hell of a lot more than a proper switch.
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Cloud Services Architect, Senior System Administrator
InfoRelay Online Systems (www.inforelay.com)
