Hi
I know I may be asking to much for a SMB NAS but I was wondering if any tower/desktop based NASs on the market currently support trunking (in Cisco speak) on their network interfaces.
I have a Cisco Layer 2 switch that is split into 4 VLANs which in turn are routed by a Cisco 877 Router/Firewall connected via an 802.1Q trunk interface. It would be cool if I could get a NAS that can operate on a 802.1Q tagged switchport to support the different VLANs on the switch.
This would basically require the following:
- NAS support for 802.1Q VLAN tags
- The ability to assign a multiple different IP addresses on different networks for the NAS to correspond with the four different VLANs on the switch
- Each client/server device therefore being able to access the NAS on it local VLAN without having to route through the the Cisco router to access the NAS connected on the other VLAN.
I know this is easy on enterprise based NAS/SAN but wanted to know if there types of features have made their way into the SMB market yet. Doing things this way I think will make performance much greater as I will be able to bypass the router (100MB) and stay on the switch only for all NAS traffic which supports 1GB links.
Thanks
I know I may be asking to much for a SMB NAS but I was wondering if any tower/desktop based NASs on the market currently support trunking (in Cisco speak) on their network interfaces.
I have a Cisco Layer 2 switch that is split into 4 VLANs which in turn are routed by a Cisco 877 Router/Firewall connected via an 802.1Q trunk interface. It would be cool if I could get a NAS that can operate on a 802.1Q tagged switchport to support the different VLANs on the switch.
This would basically require the following:
- NAS support for 802.1Q VLAN tags
- The ability to assign a multiple different IP addresses on different networks for the NAS to correspond with the four different VLANs on the switch
- Each client/server device therefore being able to access the NAS on it local VLAN without having to route through the the Cisco router to access the NAS connected on the other VLAN.
I know this is easy on enterprise based NAS/SAN but wanted to know if there types of features have made their way into the SMB market yet. Doing things this way I think will make performance much greater as I will be able to bypass the router (100MB) and stay on the switch only for all NAS traffic which supports 1GB links.
Thanks
