[rescue] Long network paths

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 08:07:36AM -0700, Fogg, James wrote:

> And, really big LANs usually need to have the broadcast domain broken up by
> routers and VLAN's.
> 
> For the home datacenter though, it mostly doesn't matter (except for the
> 4-hub/repeater rule, its a killer). For the networker-geek home network
> (mine) one must run at least 3 VLAN's.

Just out of curiosity, what is the point of VLANs at home?  I never
really understood all that well what they are for in the first place,
which doesn't help.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd