It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

The average home now has dozens of networked devices, from computers to smart devices and streaming boxes. Each of these comes with different considerations about how they use the network, and that's ...

VLANs break a physical LAN into several logical broadcast domains. Each LAN station hears traffic sent by its own VLAN but receives nothing from stations in other VLANs -- not even from those ...

To begin, we must have a more formal definition of what a LAN is. LAN stands for local area network. Hubs and switches usually are thought of as participating in a single LAN. Normally, if you connect ...

Setting up virtual local area networks or VLANs in your home network or home lab makes management of your network easier. You can use one as a guest network to share your internet connection with ...

I just bought a GS110TPv3 with the intention of setting up VLANs to eventually segregate WiFi traffic from a common UniFi WAP, but first I wanted to test with just a plain ol' laptop and Ethernet ...

Rate your favorite Cisco Press books. Chapter 3, “Switch Operation,” presents a functional overview of how multilayer switching (MLS) is performed at Layers 3 and 4. The actual MLS process can take ...

In Cisco LAN switch environments, the native VLAN is typically untagged on 802.1Q trunk ports. This can lead to a security vulnerability in your network environment. It is a best practice to ...

You may or may not have heard of VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network). It is something that is primarily used in large businesses around the world. If you are interested in opening a business that ...

I'm configuring a Juniper switch with multiple VLANs and putting an IRB interface in each VLAN. A member server (on a downstream switch) in one VLAN can ping all the IRB interfaces and within its own ...