Can I create a private network in my domain?
We have a domain in my company. I need for testing purposes to create some kind of a private network, that will be kind of excluded from the network. I need to let/have 2-3 pc\’s, to only see each other, and the rest of the network act regularly.
I have regular switch.
How can I do it?
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May 24th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Well, it sort of depends on the switch you have. Ideally your switch would be able to handle VLAN’s. If it does you would configure a second VLAN within the switch and then assign that VLAN to the ports your separated PC’s are plugged into. You will have assigned a new IP subnet scheme to this VLAN when you created it in the switch. Give the PC’s addresses within that VLAN.
If your switch does not support VLAN’s then there’s no way I can think of to truly seperate the networks within a single switch. The switch will route between them even if you assign them different subnets. Without VLAN capability your best bet may be to simply buy a second switch for the new network to keep them seperate.