[tech] Gigabit switch

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sun Apr 24 22:05:25 WST 2005


On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:53:23PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Do we actually need VLANs on a UCC gig switch? The thing is almost twice
> the price; wouldn't all the things we'd want to connect at Gig be on
> the same (machine room) VLAN?

I could certainly see simple partitioning being useful, for
connecting cobbler/cybium/other clubroom machines to the
machineroom servers. Madako should be able to route at
something a lot faster than 100mbit even if it can't do full
1000mbit.

Matt


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