Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Monday 30 May 2011 17:06:01 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice
> > good switch where you can tag the vlans?
> 
> Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking for
> something that will work that I can do myself, that is affordable.
> 
> > Because if someone takes over your router it does not matter that you
> > have different vlans, they can access everything.
> 
> And the same would apply if they got access to the switch too, right? ;)
> 

since the switch will be in its own managment vlan, it won't be possible. 

> > But if the router is on a different vlan than the internal network,
> > they have to take over the switch - which will be in a vlan
> > inaccessible from any active device - to get into the other vlans.
> 
> If this is something that can be done with not a lot of money/expertise,
> can you point me to some How-To that walk me through it?

the manuals of switches with vlan tagging are pretty easy. On alcatels its 
boils down to klicking around in a web interface ;)