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Re: [school-discuss] LTSP and school-provided networks on same physical infrastructure



On 7/3/05, Daniel Howard <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

>         We meet with district IT personnel in a few weeks, it will be
>         interesting
>         to hear their take on the VPN proposal, as well as the whole
>         Linux 
>         business.

It doesn't change anything, but just in the interest of accuracy, what
was proposed wasn't VPNs (virtual private networks), but VLAN trunking,
running separate virtual LANs over the same wire.  Both of these
technologies are vastly useful in education, but they are also quite
different things.

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