[Mageia-sysadm] Switch and admin cards configuration

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Olivier Thauvin wrote:

> * nicolas vigier (boklm at mars-attacks.org) wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The new switch that we will bring to Marseille next week allows to use
> > VLANs.
> > 
> > I think we could use two VLANs :
> > - one for public IPs with half of the ports (replacing the switch we are
> >   using now)
> > - one for private IPs, to connect the servers admin cards. We can also
> >   connect the 2nd network card of all servers to be able to access this
> >   network from any of the servers.
> > 
> > What do you think ?
> 
> I think to two things:
> - don't use VLAN 1, it's the default one on cisco switch, not using it
>   avoid mistakes
> - maybe using vlan not used by our network provider in the case
>   need to go through their equipments.

Ah actually I was talking about VLAN only internal to the switch. So
with untagged ports.