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I work for a small financial institution and inherited some infrastructure in a state of disrepair. Ports were failing on one of our main switches (an old unmanaged Dell). The previous IT guy just hu...
To substitute the previous 5-port switch, you could create an additional VLAN, like VLAN 123 on on fo these switches, "remove" five [why not right a block of four, six eight ...?] (not having these as a member for the VLAN 1, just [-], and then make these ports [u]ntagged members of the VLAN 123, and also set the PVID to 123 on these ports..
Now you have the VLAN 1 for your internal network, and VLAN 123 for the Internet side. Very simlpe.
Keep in mind that this might be not the smartest decision having VLANs of your in-house LAN and Internet on the same device from the security prospective.
To substitute the previous 5-port switch, you could create an additional VLAN, like VLAN 123 on on fo these switches, "remove" five [why not right a block of four, six eight ...?] (not having these as a member for the VLAN 1, just [-], and then make these ports [u]ntagged members of the VLAN 123, and also set the PVID to 123 on these ports..
Now you have the VLAN 1 for your internal network, and VLAN 123 for the Internet side. Very simlpe.
Keep in mind that this might be not the smartest decision having VLANs of your in-house LAN and Internet on the same device from the security prospective.
Thank you for the reply!
From a security perspective is that because of VLAN hopping and other exploits?
That being said, sounds like it is time to reinsert the small 5 port switch.
Thanks again!
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