On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:50:38 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:


On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:44:37 +0000, dennis@home wrote:
A VLAN will stop a device on one port talking to a device on another
port using a plain switch will not!

PLEASE read waht I am saying., I have said all along that I cant see
what the point of 'secure house networks' is,

Translation: I don't / didn't understand the meaning of 'VLAN'.

and that the claims that
'Vlan segeregates traffic' are in fact silly, because a normal; s3witch
does that too.

No it doesn't (as you have now been told several times) in the context
under discussion and the fact that you think it's silly doesn't negate
that fact.

We are (even if you aren't) in this instance specifically talking
about the logical segmentation of groups of ports on a single 'switch'
so that (for example) a device in port group A may not be allowed to
see a device in port group B. It could be as if there were two
completely separate switches. The VLAN in that instance is being used
to 'isolate' two logically separate groups, whilst all sharing the
same physical cables and hardware.

A VLAN could also be used to 'join' disparate workstations spread
across a range of equipment, like a 'workgroup'.

snip further waffling

Cheers, T i m