Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server?
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoMainly for security reasons. Both servers have some limited exposure to the internet. Are you saying doing it that way has performance implications? I haven’t noticed any problems its all fast just like before when everything was on the same LAN
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It will impact server to server performance significantly.
If the servers are independent that’s fine but don’t do a file share or some other performance critical component across vlans.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Interesting, I haven’t noticed anything, in fact since I switched everything has felt faster. And I’m constantly sending large files to devices on other VLANs.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It will be slower with more latency and CPU usage.
I would highly recommend you read up on networking and the OSI model. Switching is extremely fast because it is done in hardware. Routing is slow because it goes though the CPU.
If all else fails you could create a dedicated vlan for storage access.