[Nottingham] A strange network switch: Does a 'concentrator'/'mux' network switch exist?

[Aaron Jackson]

TP-Link seem to have a similar thing called port isolation. Their gear
is quite a bit cheaper than Cisco's, so maybe be worth looking into.

http://www.tp-link.us/faq-525.html

Aaron.


Aaron Jackson via Nottingham writes:

> Martin,
>
> My CCNA might finally be coming in handy for once. As I understand it,
> what you want is possible on any switch which supports enough VLANs to
> assign one per port. Any Cisco Catalyst switch is able to do this. Some
> of the Netgear "managed" switches are capable of this too. Just put port
> 48 in all VLANs and make sure IP forwarding is disabled on the server.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Aaron.
>
>
> Martin via Nottingham writes:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Here's an interesting one which would be very good if this exists:
>>
>>
>> Normal network switches will route data packets from any ethernet port
>> to any other on the switch...
>>
>> Instead...
>>
>>
>> Are there any switches that can be restricted so that say:
>>
>> Physical ports 1 to 47 ONLY connect to physical port 48;
>> Similarly, port 48 can reply and broadcast to all ports;
>> Ports 1 to 47 can not connect amongst themselves.
>>
>>
>> This is to have a number of devices connect to a server such that each
>> device is physically unaware of any other device connected to that server...
>>
>>
>> Is there any such kit available?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>
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