switch recomendations/vlans

For those of us not particularly familiar with vlans - I did find what
seems, to me anyway, a reasonable introduction to vlans and why we might
want the from an article in Linux Journal last year.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7268

Not to be taking sides, I can see from this article where they could be
a useful tool in almost any business or institutional network.

I can also see where in some circumstances you would probably prefer
physical security. i.e. - a network in a school. You would probably want
the students section of the lan, with all it's budding young
hackers/crackers, physically separated from the administration's lan.
You might want to have the different administration sections, on vlans
though.

Maybe someone can tell me though. Is Microsoft's "workgroup" effectively
 an attempt at this same concept? How does it compare?

Jim Gribbin

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