On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 17:46 +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > > > I was thinking that I may need to get a new switch for a set of > > computers I have in a lab at work. > > If you're thinking about using vlan's to separate traffic in a lab, which is > potentially bad traffic (like, you're supporting a team of developers who are > working on the MAC layer of some new hardware chip for example) I'll > recommend: Don't. Been there, done that. > > Here's an anecdote: I worked at a company making wifi chips. We isolated > the lab network with vlan's, so if the engineers screwed anything up, they > would only bring down their lab network. In theory. Turns out, not in > practice. One incident, their chip started spewing the network with MAC > addresses that were all 0's. That brought down the whole building. > >
Thanks, the good news is that its a medical/biology lab. They may be processing DNA sequences but that shouldn't get routed into the link layer of the switch... :) Cheers. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
