Re: Switch recommendations

Arthur Corliss wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Damien Hull wrote:
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>>I hope they have a lot of $ to spend. A 48 port switch will cost you.
>>Getting one that's managed will put nice dent in anyones budget. I'm
>>currently using a Hawking but it's only 24 ports. Cost me $310 with
>>shipping. It does a lot more then most switches at that price.
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>>http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=36&FamID=49&ProdID=170
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>>Why do they need VLans? Most networks don't need them.
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>?! If they have the need for that kind of port density there's very likely a
>lot of benefit for VLANs and other management capabilities. How about
>securing and controlling access to your backend servers? How about
>segregating your departmental traffic? If they have publically exposed
>systems how about a DMZ?
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>*Most* networks can use them, and there's probably a majority of those
>networks that should but aren't.
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Not sure I would put a DMZ on a VLAN. I prefer mister 3 legged firewall
for a DMZ. I was planning on using VLANs as part of wireless security. I
haven't figured out how I'm going to do that yet but that's the plan.
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Received on Thu Aug 25 10:06:44 2005