On Dec 21, 2007 6:48 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
And I'm having some trouble envisioning a residential end user that honestly has a need for 256 networks with sufficiently differently policies. Or that a firewall device can't reasonably deal with those policies even on a single network, since you mainly need to protect devices from external access.
I'd agree that 256 at home seems high to me, today... I do have 10 vlans at home but I could be considered an outlier. I'm not sure that in the future 10 would even been considered small, maybe things split on room levels, or appliance types or 'needs vendor support' or some other set of arbitrary policy points. I agree with you below though that a /48 seems very large for a residence :) -Chris