Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:46:01 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c Message-ID: <37A0F5C9.48F4A442@softweyr.com> References: <199907290226.WAA11541@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907290759080.18348-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> <199907291434.KAA13492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> <<On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:00:48 -0400 (EDT), Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> said:
>
> > I'm not talking about IP level, I'm talking about layer 2. I'll repeat my
> > previous statement: If I put two different machines on seperate VLANs
> > on my switch it doesn't matter what network protocol they run, they will
> > never see each other.
>
> > VLANs are not dependent on subnets.
>
> They are if you expect to run IP and have machines communicate with
> each other.
If you do that on a VLAN switch, you'll have to route between the two VLANs.
The VLANs are seperate networks which happen to share the same physical
space, that's why they're called Virtual LANs.
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