Roberts,
I don't think 5500 supports pvlan, it has to be 6500, but I heard from
somewhere those lower end 2948/4000 also will be able to support pvlan very
soon.
pvlan, from my understanding, does not give you more security among vlans.
It only controls ports within the same vlan by preventing them from talking
to each other without your control. It is more of a way of saving vlans for
service providers.
I believe the doc of 6500 explains it pretty well.
If your customer is concerned about vlan leak, I am afraid you will probably
have to give them a seperate switch or they can use some kind encryption
before sending out any traffic.
Just my 2 cents.
HTH
KY
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> I have some customers that need to be connected to my network. They
insist
> on not having their servers connected to a switch that has other customers
> on it. They will not pay for an additional switch. I was considering
> recommending private vlans? That way things are more secure on the
switch.
> Is this a good idea? The current switches are catalyst 5500. Does this
> hardware support private vlans? I have checked the documentation and I
have
> only found that the software needs to be 5.4(1) but they make no mention
of
> hardware requirements.
> Thanks
>
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