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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Imagine this: your smart home devices, guest Wi-Fi, and workstations all coexist on the same network. A single compromised IoT device could expose sensitive data or disrupt your entire system. It’s a ...

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 ...

If I'm not mistaken, this simply means that you haven't created the appropriate VLAN interface/assigned it an IP. This is fine, so long as no routing needs to take place to that particular VLAN, which ...

To keep up with department stores’ demands for quick turnaround and to reduce labor costs in its 300,000 square-foot Stockton, Calif., facility, wholesaler Dorfman Pacific last year installed a ...