Well, you could segregate traffic from your business network and your lab. That way ...say if you were "ghosting" in the lab, you would not adversely impact your business network.
We use them here to separate our 'wings' / departments. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher L Merrill Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:16 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT - gigabit switches Ryan Leathers wrote: > I would expect a lab environment to make tremendous use of VLANs. Ok...I've read the Wikipedia definition of VLANs, and I can see how they might be useful in a large network. If it matters, we never run multiple simultaneous load tests in our lab. The rest of our office is on a separate switch (same network mask)...but connected to the lab via the lab switch. So, forgive my ignorance, what problem would a VLAN solve for me? Chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Chris Merrill | Web Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://webperformance.com 919-433-1762 | 919-845-7601 Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software & Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
