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Any Nortel Edge Switches With Private VLAN Features? Will 09-24-06
Posted by Will on September 24, 2006, 2:55 pm
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Cisco switches support a security feature known as Private VLANs (PVLANs),
with one port used to uplink to a router or firewall port, and the remaining
ports configured as completely private? I'm not sure how Cisco defines
PVLAN, but the key attribute I must have for this product is that all data
must pass from a private port to the uplink port, with no possibility for
broadcast, arp, or layer 3 traffic to travel between private ports. This
must be true even if the host attached to a private VLAN port can
impersonate a different MAC address other than its own, and must be true
even if the host knows the target MAC address of a host on a different VLAN
port.

Since I will be using one of these switches for each segment attached to a
firewall, and the number of hosts are trivially small, I have no concerns
about density or about passing VLAN information across multiple switches.

What are my product options? I would like to identify both a fast ethernet
and a gigabit switch.

--
Will



Posted by Dophi on September 27, 2006, 9:21 pm
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Unfortunately, Nortel switches don't support Private VLANs.
The only one way to achieve your goal on Nortel platform is ACL but
it's too hard to do it.

Will wrote:
> Cisco switches support a security feature known as Private VLANs (PVLANs),
> with one port used to uplink to a router or firewall port, and the remaining
> ports configured as completely private? I'm not sure how Cisco defines
> PVLAN, but the key attribute I must have for this product is that all data
> must pass from a private port to the uplink port, with no possibility for
> broadcast, arp, or layer 3 traffic to travel between private ports. This
> must be true even if the host attached to a private VLAN port can
> impersonate a different MAC address other than its own, and must be true
> even if the host knows the target MAC address of a host on a different VLAN
> port.
>
> Since I will be using one of these switches for each segment attached to a
> firewall, and the number of hosts are trivially small, I have no concerns
> about density or about passing VLAN information across multiple switches.
>
> What are my product options? I would like to identify both a fast ethernet
> and a gigabit switch.
>
> --
> Will


Posted by Morten Rydahl Nielsen on September 29, 2006, 5:53 am
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> Cisco switches support a security feature known as Private VLANs (PVLANs),
> with one port used to uplink to a router or firewall port, and the
remaining
> ports configured as completely private? I'm not sure how Cisco defines
> PVLAN, but the key attribute I must have for this product is that all data
> must pass from a private port to the uplink port, with no possibility for
> broadcast, arp, or layer 3 traffic to travel between private ports.
This
> must be true even if the host attached to a private VLAN port can
> impersonate a different MAC address other than its own, and must be true
> even if the host knows the target MAC address of a host on a different
VLAN
> port.
>
> Since I will be using one of these switches for each segment attached to a
> firewall, and the number of hosts are trivially small, I have no concerns
> about density or about passing VLAN information across multiple switches.
>
> What are my product options? I would like to identify both a fast
ethernet
> and a gigabit switch.
>
> --
> Will

Hi Will.
You can use the PVID setting on the ports to get something like this
function on most Nortel ethernet switches. The PVID defines the target VLAN
for an untagged port.
For 100Mb/s you can use the 470 switch, and for Gigabit the 5510.

1. Disable the "Auto PVID" global parameter (Is disabled default).
2. All ports set to "Untagged/Access", NOT Tagged.
3. Create 1 VLAN for the firewall, and 1 for each client.
4. Assign all VLAN's to the firewall port, and set the PVID to the
firewall VLAN
5. For each "client" port assign the firewall VLAN, and the 1 VLAN for
the client. PVID set to client VLAN.

Traffic sent from the firewall will be seen by all client ports, but traffic
from a client will only be seen by the firewall.


Regards
Morten Rydahl



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