T he average home now has dozens of networked devices, from computers to smart devices and streaming boxes. Each of these ...

Upgrading to a managed switch for my home unlocked increased control, VLAN support, link aggregation, and other advanced ...

Nutter helps a reader protect the servers in his growing network. As our network grows in size, so does the need to protect the servers. We have already put in an interior firewall between the servers ...

I'm looking at the mess the previous IT team left in their wake with regards to the logical layout of the network. I've been here approaching a year and a half and it's got to the point it is driving ...

A virtual local area network is a logical subnetwork that groups a collection of devices from different physical LANs. Large business computer networks often set up VLANs to re-partition a network for ...

What you can do with VLANs is dependent on the type of switch gear you have on the network. To do VLANs, at least one device, for example in my case – the core switch where everything on the network ...

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 ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

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 ...

Network vendors have fallen prey to vulnerabilities in Ethernet VLAN protocol implementations. While only Cisco and Juniper Networks are confirmed to have vulnerable products at this stage, a notice ...