<div> Linksys and Netgear switches now also do private VLANs for far less than 6k. They will not provide the features/functionality/management that your 6k Catalyst will provide, but it doesn't sound like you're looking for anything more than making sure traffic from room to room is secure.
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<div> While your approach is technically feasible, it sounds like you're trying to kill an ant with a large boulder, and I think it would be far simpler and better supported in the long run to go with a lower end switch that does support the VLAN functionality you're looking for. Those things do exist today.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kurth Bemis</b> <<a href="mailto:kurth@ozonecomputer.com">kurth@ozonecomputer.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am working with a small inn (under 50 rooms) that is next to a ski<br>resort. The inn just had Cat5e Homeruns to each room installed, with a
<br>patch panel in the basement. Now it's my job to connect each of the<br>those rooms to the Internet. I think I have a Cisco switch that I can<br>do Private VLANS with, however I thought of another solution.<br><br>Has anybody seen or does anybody know of a VoIP hardphone that has
<br>router instead of a switch? I could connect the phone to the router,<br>give IP addresses based on the phone's MAC, and then the client can<br>connect thier computer to the phone. Because each phone/room would be<br>
on a different subnet, they wouldn't be able to see one another. Then I<br>could save them 6k on Cisco gear and maybe some headaches?<br><br>Has anyone seen anything like this? Or does anyone have a better idea?<br><br>
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