Personally I think you'd be better off getting a router.

At 09:35 AM 5/1/01, you wrote:
>Are dual NIC's feasible? Seems on the surface to be cheaper and more
>straightforward but haven't seen it mentioned so I may be missing
>something.
>I can actually give each department their own server but accessing the
>email server would present problems.
>
>On 1 May 2001 10:47:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Curtis Call")
>wrote:
>
> >You could buy a special NIC card for your server that can handle ISL
> >encapsulated frames.  It might be cheaper to buy a router though since I
> >don't think the lower end switches support ISL anyway.
> >
> >At 12:25 PM 4/30/01, you wrote:
> >>Thanks all, that clarifies somewhat.
> >>
> >>On 30 Apr 2001 14:06:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Karen E Young")
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> > Usually there needs to be some form of communication
> >> >between VLANS though, so practically speaking you do need a router.
> >>
> >>What I would like to do is create broadcast domains for different
> >>departments, ie finance, admin. But all departments would need to
> >>communicate with the same server(s).
> >>I'd like to implement VLAN's without the expense of having to purchase
> >>routers, but doesn't seem like it's feasible?
> >>
> >>I have ordered P. Openheimer's (sp) Top Down Design book and that may
> >>better guide me in trying to implement an efficient network design.
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