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| VLANs require a router to communicate out of the virtual connection they are in?
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| I wouldn't have choosen the same words you did to say that but yes, for a member of one VLAN to connect to a host on another VLAN a router is necessary.
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| thank you,
can you use anything else besides a router, like another switch to connect from one vlan to antoher vland in another physical switch? | |
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| No, not really. You need something that understands layer 3 addressing. That thing will be a router in some shape.
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Originally posted by MadChef:
No, not really. You need something that understands layer 3 addressing. That thing will be a router in some shape.
MadChef
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| This question really confuses me because according to the Sybex book you can have a server attached to multiple VLANs without going through a router. | |
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This question really confuses me because according to the Sybex book you can have a server attached to multiple VLANs without going through a router.
You would have to attach the server to a trunk link. Only a trunk link allows multiple VLANS on a port.
I just thought of another question could you attach a hub to a trunk link and attach multiple servers to it or can you only have one device connected to a trunk link?
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| So given the question and responses, is it false? You can have a device connected to multiple VLANs without going through a router. | |
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| Please make this more confusing for me... | |
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| I think the answer everyone is trying to say, is true. fast and easy, simple, True. | |
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Originally posted by haubest:
This question really confuses me because according to the Sybex book you can have a server attached to multiple VLANs without going through a router.
You could do that if the server's NIC understands the particular trunking mechanism used to send multiple vlans to it. Then multiple VLANs would be able to communicate with a single server (though it would have multiple IP addresses, one for each VLAN). However, unless this server was doing some sort of routing, you wouldn't be able to have one VLAN communicate with another VLAN. They would only be able to talk to the server.
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| Dang, I typed out a whole answer thinking MadChef had left out part, but when I went back and reread his response I realized his answer was perfect!
I should have known better then to think he was less then complete
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