On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Matthew Patton wrote: > 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.
CS admins don't always own the network layer.
