Surge protectors from the hardware store is a nice feature to ;)
> On Oct 1, 2016, at 11:36 AM, tech-lists <tech-li...@zyxst.net> wrote:
>
> On 01/10/2016 14:58, Eric Huiban wrote:
>> And my last sentence is where you'll get "problems" with your ISP ! It
>> will append if you're leaking undue ethernet packets to the PPPoE
>> gateway : any broadcast or anything unknown to your dumb switch will be
>> submitted to your ISP's good will. So... don't make your ISP grumpy. ;-)
>
> aha!
>
>> You better have to use a not-so-dumb switch on which you can
>> affect/group ports all-together (without any VLAN tagging) and isolate
>> them from any other data traffic from other ports. There's always a way
>> to leak something by misconfiguration or by plugin-in other clients on
>> your switch (even if you put red-tape on unused ports... someone will do
>> that one day or another!).
>
> OK I guess best bet is to invest in a longer cat6 cable. Thanks for the
tip.
> --
> J.
