[TriLUG] OT - gigabit switches

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

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.

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Christopher L Merrill
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:16 PM
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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

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