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Re: Different terms for the same or more secure?
From: "Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)" <hylton () conacher co za>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:35:41 +0200
David Gillett wrote:
so, in the example above although I might have 2 physical LANs I could also have 2 VLANS, one for sales and one for accounts?-----Original Message-----From: Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) [mailto:hylton () conacher co za] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:49 AMTo: Security basics Subject: Re: Different terms for the same or more secure?OK so a physical subnetted network is 'safer'/'more secure' than a VLAN network.I'm still not getting the difference between a virtual and a physical LAN. Can anyone give me an example of say a company with two branches in different locations with each branch have its own sales and accounts department. I would subnet my IP such:Office A 192.168.0.x Office B 192.168.1.xThe departments of each office would have IP's from their respective subnet.Sales A 192.168.0.1 Sales B 192.168.1.1 Accounts A 192.168.0.2 Accounts B 192.168.1.2 Make sense? tnx for the helpDifferent locations? Then you want two physical LANs, each with their own address block, and you might use a third (tiny) block to manage the WAN link between locations. Where you would use VLANs is to separate different departments (or organizational units or security contexts) *in the same physical vicinity*. Instead of mounting two adjacent devices(physical), you install a single device and ("logically") partition it (virtual).
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