This week I’ll wrap up the lab by showing what I think is the “best” (shortest) config to complete the lab variation #2 from last week’s post. For those that missed the last two weeks, we’re in the ...

</pre><BR><BR>So I manually configured vlan 500 on the router and switch, put vlan 500 as the management vlan with an IP on the switch and router. Router and switch can ping each other's IPs in vlan ...

I recently acquired a rack mountable switch (non-Cisco, only for the price advantage). The main reason was to consolidate the wiring in a 42U rack full of servers. The wires coming out of the rack was ...

It's easy to see why virtual LANs have become popular on networks of all sizes. Imagine having multiple separate physical networks within a single organization — without the headache of managing ...

For those of you still skeptical about the whole VTP-client-updating-a-VTP-server thing, here are some details for a short experiment to prove the point. The trick is to get to the beginning state of ...

It’s easy to see why virtual LANs have become popular on networks of all sizes. Imagine having multiple separate physical networks within a single organization — without the headache of managing ...

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 ...

Putting smart home devices on their own VLAN sounds like a pretty straightforward task on paper. You isolate your IoT gadgets, and as a result, you tighten security and keep your main network free of ...

A VLAN, or virtual local area network, works in the same way as a physical LAN with the exception that the hosts don't need to be located on the same physical network to be linked. Segmentation is the ...

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, ...