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At home I generally set all switches with a native VLAN of the main LAN and tagged to the guest LAN. I know this is probably not optimal, but I'm wondering how bad it really is? I get that it probably ...

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 ...

I need to remove port 2 from that VLAN without removing port 1. Whelp, figured it out. The switch is smarter than I am. Ports 1 and 2 are in a Port-channel, so whatever operation you perform on one it ...

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, ...

Virtual LAN (VLAN) technology, which is defined under the IEEE 802.1q specifications, has allowed enterprise to extend the reach of their corporate networks across the WAN. VLANs enable a LAN to be ...

The Test Center redefined an existing LAN to take advantage of VLANs for bandwidth and security purposes. The network, designed to approximate the kind of environment found in small businesses, ...

Salt Lake City, Utah—Board maker Parvus Corp. introduces its PRV-1059 VLAN-enabled (virtual local area network) 5-port PC/104 Ethernet switch. Designed and tested to meet MIL-STD-810F, this rugged ...

In our initial PacketFence article in the April 2007 issue of LJ, we introduced the great network access control (NAC) solution that rivals the best ones on the market. On that occasion, we covered ...

I fondly remember the days when I was a broadcast engineer. These days, most of my work is administrative, meaning that I “fly a desk” most of the time with very little time spent doing anything ...