Re: Different terms for the same or more secure?
- From: "Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:32:24 +0200
eliterhythm@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hey hylton,Why and what(how) makes a VLAN more flexible? Using your example of a single accounts person from the tenth floor sitting on the 1st floor, all I would need to do for physical subnetting is make sure the 1st floor accounts person' PC had the same subnet as those on the 10th floor.
The main advantage of having a VLAN is that they provide physical independence while defining a logical entity. Say one of your account person sits on first floor & in accounts vlan can be in the same subnet with the other account person who sits at 10th floor.
However VLAN as a term, generally is considered to define a single subnet but you can also define two or more subnets in a single VLAN.
In simplest words u can c a vlan as advanced stage of a subnet with many advanced options and facilities.
As per the security is concern, i cant see one more secure than another. both are eqally secure (or unsecure) however a vlan is much more flexible than a subnet.
In the end can I say that a VLAN is a LAN segment within a LAN exactly as a subnet is a LAN segment inside a LAN ie a VLAN is a subnet?
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