Re: Private Vlans - Is this a good idea

Amen! ""Howard C. Berkowitz"" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:p0500190eb6e697785d87@[63.216.127.100]... Let me generalize my standard question of "what is the problem you are trying to solve," with "what problem do you NOT WANT to solve." What you are describing is a management, not a

Re: Private Vlans - Is this a good idea

FUD - Sounds gud! What is it? If the FU stands for what I think it does, what does the D stand for. Sorry for dragging the thread to one side, but I think I work somewhere that FUD cud become a major part of our vocabulary. I don't want to make up my own D if it's already in popular use :-)

FUD definition (WAS: Private Vlans - Is this a good idea)

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=20165 HTH, TroyC -Original Message- From: Gareth Hinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Private Vlans - Is this a good idea FUD - Sounds gud! What is it? If the FU

Private Vlans - Is this a good idea

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

Re: Private Vlans - Is this a good idea

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

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I forgot that I will be upgrading the 5500s to 6509s before this would be implemented. 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.

Re: Private Vlans - Is this a good idea

Let me generalize my standard question of "what is the problem you are trying to solve," with "what problem do you NOT WANT to solve." What you are describing is a management, not a technical, problem. If your customers are part of the same organization as you are, someone to whom both of you