2 Subnets on 1 Lan
Dave Ihnat
dihnat at dminet.com
Fri Jul 13 13:11:44 UTC 2007
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:10AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> It may not be a best practice, but I can't think of anything that
> actually breaks - or is even an issue on a small private network - if
> you overlay subnets on the same wire.
I've seen switches and firewall applicances get confused, plus excessive
traffic.
> VLANs are a nicer approach but then you need a more expensive switch
> and if the Linux box is on a trunk connection you have to find some
> elusive documentation about how to configure subinterfaces.
I don't see the need. Put in a $20 NIC, tell the Linux box about the
second NIC and configure it. Voila! Oh, and a cheap switch for the
second LAN if you've more than one device.
But if it works in a given environment, hey, that's an engineering
solution.
--
Dave Ihnat
President, DMINET Consulting, Inc.
dihnat at dminet.com
773/550.0929
More information about the users
mailing list