Brett Davidson wrote, On 11/09/2012 11:08 AM:
You need a managed switch (or at least a VLAN aware one) as a normal
switch will drop VLAN-tagged packets. Not a cheap option.
Just to clarify this - Managed switches are VLAN aware by definition.
It maybe web managed or CLI managed, some only support management via
the serial port.
Some are limited to 4 vlans, other common numbers are 8/64/ ... 4096
Non managed switches may or may not pass VLAN tagged frames, because
they're a couple bytes larger.
I did this ages ago with horse, setting the MTU four bytes less.
And cheap is relative... I sold a 24 x 100 Mbit + 2x gig cisco switch on
trademe and only got $12 for it.
$25 http://www.trademe.co.nz/531453520 Cisco
$35 http://www.trademe.co.nz/529835881 Gig Asante
Also good routers (those that can run dd-wrt or similar) can do VLANs
but don't necessarily route between vlans at full wire speed. Still
faster than the internet though.
--
Craig Falconer
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