As your home network expands, so do the burdens of administering the list of network appliances. Maybe you've expanded the number of wired devices in your network, and added additional managed network ...

Q: I have a Cisco L3 3560 switch, 5 unmanaged switches and 150 users. I need to create 10 VLANs. How can I configure my VLAN given the switches I have? It depends on how many users you would need in ...

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 ...

Five things you should know about configuring a Cisco IOS switch Your email has been sent Once you're ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let's answer some ...

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, ...

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, ...

I think that you are misunderstanding how these vlans are working. If you have port that is tagging for vlan x that means that traffic that is on vlan x is encapped in dot1q. Untagged y means that ...

Using a VLAN -- or Virtual Local Area Network -- to segregate the traffic on your router provides added security and performance for devices connected to your LAN. While a LAN is determined by the ...

In the IP based Ethernet networks, data and voice services are often transmitted simultaneously over the network. Voice traffic, in particular, requires a higher forwarding priority than data traffic.