On 9/Jul/15 21:45, Matthew Huff wrote: > I've seen VLAN/subnet security used frequently in the financial world, even > to the point of having full firewalls between vlans/subnets. Mostly for > regulator purposes (Chinese firewall and all that). It's also common to allow > outbound requests or redirect to different proxies based on source addresses > within a corporate network. > > In residential networks, it's mostly used for guest networks that can route > out to the internet, but not to other local devices.
In the AN, you don't want residential neighbors viewing each others' Layer 2 domains. But using different VLAN's for that doesn't scale - so-called Split Horizons (Private VLAN's) are the answer. Mark.
