Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:40:19 +0100 (CET) | From | 5116@telia ... |
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On 7 Jan, Alan Cox wrote: >> Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? >> That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case >> both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN >> came first, but non-vlan traffic would suffer worse. > > Why would someone filter between vlans when any node on each vlan can happily > ignore the vlan partitioning > You might be connected to a vlan capable switch which will only feed the `right' vlan to a certain port... In this case an one-armed firewall might make sense.
/Daniel --
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