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.

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