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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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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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