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On Monday 30 May 2011 17:06:01 Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice |
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> > good switch where you can tag the vlans? |
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> Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking for |
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> something that will work that I can do myself, that is affordable. |
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> > Because if someone takes over your router it does not matter that you |
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> > have different vlans, they can access everything. |
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> And the same would apply if they got access to the switch too, right? ;) |
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since the switch will be in its own managment vlan, it won't be possible. |
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> > But if the router is on a different vlan than the internal network, |
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> > they have to take over the switch - which will be in a vlan |
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> > inaccessible from any active device - to get into the other vlans. |
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> If this is something that can be done with not a lot of money/expertise, |
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> can you point me to some How-To that walk me through it? |
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the manuals of switches with vlan tagging are pretty easy. On alcatels its |
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boils down to klicking around in a web interface ;) |
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