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Posted by Phil Schuman on August 16, 2006, 5:11 am
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> Hi guys,
>
> I'm a bit new to managed switches, but am looking to set one up for a
> friend of mine that runs a secretarial service and manages the strata
> for the building as part of that. At the moment, he has a standard
> switch and all of the offices can see each other's computers. What he'd
> like to do is use a managed switch (he has an ELS100-24TXM) to isolate
> port 3-24 from each other (i.e. create a VLAN on each port - i think?)
> and share the other two ports (1-2) with all of the ports without
> allowing data across the 3-24 VLANs. Port one and two connect to the
> Internet connection and a shared server.
>
> I can set up trunking ports and/or egress ports on this router, though
> i'm not 100% clear on what each does. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
the other local info that will be impacted - IP address assignment -
how are the local IP addresses obtained - DHCP ?
remember that VLANs build walls to contain broadcasts.
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