Wednesday, November 22, 2017

When is physically separating networks a necessity?

Long story short, we've engineered a network for a casino. The casino people hired an old IT guy to take things over after we're done with the install. He was pretty blown away that we didn't have the games and the admin stuff on physically separate networks (he doesn't trust VLANs because at his last job a security auditor was able to hop VLANs, and he's not willing to admin this was a config issue on his part)

His reasoning isn't great IMO, but this got me wondering, is there ever a reason where you would want/need physically separate networks rather than VLANs, for legal or other reasons?



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