I'm a bit stumped on this one, and having a background in HP switches is making it worse. I have a metro-e connection that will have up to 100 VLANs coming in on it. This is connected to a GigE port ...

We have a Cisco Catalyst 6513 switch. I need to keep a small network of about 30 computers separate from the main network of 500, but still have the 30 use the same gateway (our SonicWall) for ...

Do you like puzzles? Are you working towards CCNA, or the CCNP Switch exam? If so, today’s post can be an interesting challenge to help you review switch VLAN configuration, with a short lab exercise ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Probably the most common network interconnection device in industry networks are layer 2 switches ...

Here’s a guest post sent to me by Don Crawley, author of The Accidental Administrator book series. It is an excerpt from his latest:The Accidental Administrator: Cisco ASA Security Appliance: 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 ...

Managed switches are fantastic devices with a wealth of features to enhance your local area network (LAN). Most people can get by with a simple unmanaged switch, which handles traffic routing and that ...

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 ...