VLAN Daisy Chaining

[NYR]

Hello,
Is it possible to daisy chain a VLAN port from a managed switch to a unmanaged hub or switch? My situation is, a client has one RJ45 jack that runs back to a port on a switch, the port is its own VLAN. More users have been added to the office, and they now need more availble ports. So what they want to do is plug a un-managed hub or switch to the VLAN port and add more users.
I know I will need an x-over cable to connect the two devices, but will the VLAN still work if I gave all users static address in the same subnet as the VLAN?
Thanks

 

[wybnormal]

Sure it will work.. as long as the IPs match. You dont need to give statics.. if there is DHCP available, then you would be able to use it.. the hub doesnt care and neither does the VLAN for that matter. Not at the port level. A crossover cable and then lock the port down to 10 or 100.. whichever the hub supports.

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[NYR]

wbnormal,
Thanks for the reply. I thought it might work, but needed outside thoughts. My situation is, and any thoughts are appreiciated. I have a 4 story building, every floor has up to 2-30 different suites, each suite may have 5-10 users. Every suite will be sharing a T3 internet connection. Also, each suite will need to be secured from one another. So my idea was: ex. Floor 1 has 13 suites, each suite has one VLAN port on IDF switch, IDF switch to connect to MDF switch via fiber link backbone for internet access, and each suite has little hub or switch in office for all inside users. So each floor may have up to 30 VLANs, which is a lot to setup, we will be using layer 3 switches for the routing and each port/switch will forward VLAN packets to gateway or router. I haven't thought of a DHCP solution as of yet, that is why I mentioned the static address. I was thinking about a DHCP server with many different scopes to provide DHCP, not I am not sold on that idea just yet. A little hub or switch in the office that does NAT or somehthing to the VLAN address would be great.
Thanks again

 

[NYR]

Does this sound like a do-able design? Does anyone have any thoughts on the throughput or a better idea? The switches in each suite will/might limit the collison domains, but how would it affect the over all network with so many VLANS.
Thanks Again