[Liverpool] It's nearly meeting time again

Neil Bothwick neil at stfw.net
Mon Sep 29 07:47:30 UTC 2014


On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:57:54 +0100, Sebastian Arcus wrote:

> I've spent the last few days banging my head against the wall trying to 
> understand VLAN's. I'm trying to use a single router and set of wires
> to create two completely separate networks for a client (either have a 
> guest wifi and an internal wifi, or separate the lan from the wifi - 
> both are possible). Main advantage would be for security purposes -
> such as having a guest wifi securely sharing the same set of cables as
> an internal lan in an organisation, but QoS and limiting bandwidth for 
> certain users or applications are other reasons for doing this. If 
> anyone is interested in understanding the principles behind VLAN's 
> workings, how to configure OpenWRT on routers for them and how to 
> configure a Linux box/server to do VLAN trunking - now is the time to 
> make yourself known - and I will see if I can find a person who can 
> explain it all to you :-)
> 
> I might be able to cobble together a basic presentation on this by next 
> Wednesday if there is enough interest.

I'm interested, but I don't know if that counts as "enough".


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Top Oxymorons Number 47: Act naturally
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