No.

Vlan tags are used for shared physical media between switches/routers which
are vlan tag aware. End points can also be vlan aware (i.e a linux box).

Normally you will tag a physical port of a switch to be a particular vlan
and then attach your other crap off it.

In the scanario described you are simply putting two vlan tags from the
cisco along a common pipe then telling the wifi/connecting switch to treat
each tagged frame different (for example having two 192.168.1.0/24 wireless
networks which dont interact).



On 29 April 2010 20:53, Martin Bähr <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 04:17:43PM +1200, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> > There is no need to physically separate the networks. You just need to
> > create two vlan's using 802.1q tagging.
>
> i just read up on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1Q
> according to that you still have a physical seperation on each edge
> switch. ie it is not each computer that connects to the shared network
> and decides which vlan to be on, but a switch which knows which vlan it
> belongs to.
>
> so you still need two switches for two subnets.
>
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