Guys I'm playing around with vlans on my home network I'm using a Dell Powerconnect 2816 switch and a Linksys WRT54GL I'm basically running a trunk or router on a stick. I have created 3 vlans 192.168 ...

Currently we have a Cisco 5500 Catalyst Switch in our building on our main floor. We have a Cisco 2500 router as the default router for all our clients which knows info about our other buildings, as ...

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 ...

I am testing in a lab where my SmartBits (https://www.spirentcom.com/analysis/product_line.cfm?wt=2&az-c=pl&PL=33) has a public address while my two routers and two ...

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 ...

It's time to admit your router's built-in firewall isn't enough - here's what is ...

Have you been told that VLANs are the ultimate solution to your network woes? That they’ll magically secure your infrastructure, eliminate complexity, and solve all your traffic management headaches?

A virtual LAN (VLAN) is a broadcast domain created by switches. VLANs are a convenient way to connect ports from different switches and different buildings onto the same network and broadcast domain, ...