[Mageia-sysadm] Switch and admin cards configuration

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Maât wrote:

> Le 22/08/2012 20:12, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> > * 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.
> >
> > My 2 cents.
> >
> >
> a vpn to connect securely to the private vlan (if we don't have already) ?
> 
> (would perhaps need a dedicated tiny server)

I think a ssh tunnel is enough for what we need. Which is only accessing
the admin card of the servers.