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Re: management vlan


From: Graham Toal <gtoal () UTPA EDU>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:43:40 -0500

You definitely want a separate management VLAN, and you 
should definitely also use ACLs to restrict access to that 
VLAN from your management subnets only.  Note that if you're 
a Cisco shop, Cisco specifically recommends against using 
VLAN 1.  You might also want to look at possibly putting the 
management interfaces into RFC1918 space as well.

And if you're still at the planning stage, it may not be
too late to consider an air gap.  Separate wires and
switches.  I don't fully trust VLANs yet...

G

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