Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX
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RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX
Why are you looking for a managed switch? I don't see any possible reason for that. A switch is just a bridge, it moves ethernet packets around and is mostly pretty stupid.
A router is a far more capable device and many routers have built in "switches" on a subset of their ports if you actually need that as opposed to just using a dumb switch or hub for LAN segments.
Unless you have a very large or complicated network, just assume each LAN segment is a local security domain and has total, unfettered access within each.
Your router is what provides a firewall between those segments, for example between a local "secure" segment that you control, and the public internet segment to your ISP. It does that using routing rules, and also with proxies if supported. I think VLANs are mostly a waste of time unless your network is so spread out that you can't physically connect different security domains to different router ports (because that is the only thing they accomplish; they do not provide any packet filtering at all).

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Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by gmcenroe - 10-16-2023, 10:44 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by Raion - 10-16-2023, 11:39 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-17-2023, 05:14 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by Shiunbird - 10-17-2023, 06:58 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-17-2023, 02:19 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by robespierre - 10-17-2023, 05:07 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by jpstewart - 10-18-2023, 12:37 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by Shiunbird - 10-18-2023, 07:56 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by jwhat - 10-20-2023, 03:04 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by gmcenroe - 10-22-2023, 07:21 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by robespierre - 10-22-2023, 09:14 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by gmcenroe - 10-23-2023, 12:00 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-23-2023, 01:22 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by gmcenroe - 10-23-2023, 02:08 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-23-2023, 08:35 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by jan-jaap - 10-24-2023, 10:09 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by jwhat - 10-24-2023, 10:42 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-25-2023, 08:47 AM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by jan-jaap - 10-25-2023, 01:42 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by robespierre - 10-25-2023, 06:46 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-25-2023, 07:11 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by jwhat - 10-26-2023, 11:58 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by gmcenroe - 10-25-2023, 07:49 PM
RE: Internet Security/Firewall for IRIX - by vishnu - 10-25-2023, 08:10 PM
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