{"draft":"draft-sanjib-private-vlan-10","doc_id":"RFC5517","title":"Cisco Systems' Private VLANs: Scalable Security in a Multi-Client Environment","authors":["S. HomChaudhuri","M. Foschiano"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"12","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"INDEPENDENT","abstract":"This document describes a mechanism to achieve device isolation\r\nthrough the application of special Layer 2 forwarding constraints.\r\nSuch a mechanism allows end devices to share the same IP subnet while\r\nbeing Layer 2 isolated, which in turn allows network designers to\r\nemploy larger subnets and so reduce the address management overhead.\r\n\r\nSome of the numerous deployment scenarios of the aforementioned\r\nmechanism (which range from data center designs to\r\nEthernet-to-the-home-basement networks) are mentioned in the following text\r\nto exemplify the mechanism's possible usages; however, this document\r\nis not intended to cover all such deployment scenarios nor delve into their\r\ndetails.  This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it \r\nis published for informational purposes.","pub_date":"February 2010","keywords":[],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5517","errata_url":null}