> I disagree. Fair enough > Gatekeeping people because they never learned about or worked with the VLANs found in more expensive hardware is stupid. I'm not

> I disagree. Fair enough > Gatekeeping people because they never learned about or worked with the VLANs found in more expensive hardware is stupid. I'm not sure I agree with VLANs being limited to more expensive hardware. Like in comments, there are some very cheap switches (£40 netgear) that support it and tonnes of older managed switches on ebay for £10. I don't necessary think that a price-point is the gateway and didn't really mean to 'gatekeep' people. > I agree that there is some minimum skill level people should have... This was the point I was meaning, though maybe VLAN is not a globally perceived this way, I had thought it was a fairly core concept that I'd considered would be part of this, but maybe it's due to personal experience.. I'm absolutely sure there's tonnes of protocols that I don't know that other's would feel the same way the other way around. But hey, without the comment and this discussion being had, I wouldn't know if others felt the same way :) And I appreciate you writing the final paragraph, even if you overall disagree :)