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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:06:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE406B9.3060303@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2426390.BsS6EyTPdm@localhost>

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? ;)

> 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?

Thanks...



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-28 17:10 [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support Tanstaafl
2011-05-28 21:38 ` Todd Goodman
2011-05-29  0:43   ` William Kenworthy
2011-05-29  1:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-29  9:08   ` Mick
2011-05-29 12:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-30 21:06   ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2011-05-31  4:00     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
     [not found] <gXvl8-2i1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <gXA1r-1NF-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-05-29  0:42   ` Gregory Shearman
2011-05-30 14:33     ` Todd Goodman
2011-05-30 21:06     ` Tanstaafl
2011-05-31 12:15       ` Todd Goodman

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