RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2009-10-29 Thread Klint Price
Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VLAN concepts and applications Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. I've also updated it to reflect our successfu

RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2009-10-28 Thread Andy Ognenoff
o: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VLAN concepts and applications This is a great piece of information. Thank You Ben.. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Scott wrote:  Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

2009-10-27 Thread Harry Singh
This is a great piece of information. Thank You Ben.. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. > I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP deployment. > > PROTOCOL CONCEPTS > > We have regular "untagged" Eth

VLAN concepts and applications

2009-10-27 Thread Ben Scott
Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP deployment. PROTOCOL CONCEPTS We have regular "untagged" Ethernet frames. ("Frame" is the data-link (layer 2) term for what some protocols calls a "packet" or "datagram".) Th

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What VPN software do you use for your laptop users over the 802.11? OpenVPN. (http://www.openvpn.net/). Free, Open Source. It's based on OpenSSL, and has been heavily audited and reviewed by numerous experts, so I'm

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Subject: Re: VLAN concepts and applications > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:11 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only thing we really do differently is our Access Points are Vlan > > aware, so we tie the SSID to a vlan. ... Eliminates the extra VPN step. > >

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:11 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing we really do differently is our Access Points are Vlan > aware, so we tie the SSID to a vlan. ... Eliminates the extra VPN step. There have been so many vulnerabilities and problems with the various 802.11 security p

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Andy Ognenoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice explanation - can I ask what firewall you use with this setup? A commodity PC running Linux. Linux has native VLAN support in the kernel, so we just get more network interfaces. Linux also has strong firewall cap

RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread gsweers
me of our junior techs who are not fully up on VLAN technology yet. Thanks Greg -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VLAN concepts and applications Nice explanation - can I ask

RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Sam Cayze
Agreed, thanks. This is has always been one of my cloudy areas. -Original Message- From: Sean Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VLAN concepts and applications Thanks for taking the time to write this

RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Sean Rector
Thanks for taking the time to write this up - it's very informative to a VLAN novice. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VLAN concepts and applications So

RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Thanks for taking the time to put this explanation together, and for posting it for all of us! Kim -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VLAN concepts and applications Someone asked me

RE: VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Ognenoff
9 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: VLAN concepts and applications > > Someone asked me off-list for an explanation of some VLAN stuff. >They agreed to let me post my response to the list, for discussion, >review, etc. If anyone has corrections/additions/etc., please >

VLAN concepts and applications

2008-12-09 Thread Ben Scott
Someone asked me off-list for an explanation of some VLAN stuff. They agreed to let me post my response to the list, for discussion, review, etc. If anyone has corrections/additions/etc., please contribute. PROTOCOL CONCEPTS We have regular "untagged" Ethernet frames. ("Frame" is the data-l