Re: how secure is a vlan

[m <m () ruhrpott-rooters net>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:02, tigerblue () puzzleapuma de wrote:
> Hello Outthere,
>
> I´m planing a reorganisation of our company network. I´m thinking about
> a vlan to secure a part of the net. Is this technology as secure as
> physical net ? Is there a way to break out of this virtual lan into
> another part of the network ?

Maybe you want to read http://www.fefe.de/switch/ - but there techniques
like private vLAN by Cisco, which may (or may not - i'm not into this
stuff) prevent such things.

rgds,

Malte.


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