Nutter helps a reader protect the servers in his growing network. As our network grows in size, so does the need to protect the servers. We have already put in an interior firewall between the servers ...

Many of us cordially detest virtual LANs (VLANs). They require complicated configuration, and consequently they are error-prone. They do not offer fully satisfactory solutions for the problems they ...

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 ...

The IEEE’s 802.1Q standard was developed to address the problem of how to break large networks into smaller parts so broadcast and multicast traffic wouldn’t grab more bandwidth than necessary. The ...

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 ...

Once your home network grows a little more complex, you soon realize that grouping devices into virtual local area networks (VLANs) makes a lot of sense, both from a security and administrative ...

Merging two offices, and the plan is to use a new Unifi router (not Cloud, used with a CloudKey) with the Unifi switches in place, and then have InstantOn APs for the wifi. The VLANS (1 and 2) were ...

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?

The real question is do you want this device to be pushing/popping STags or just passing them along. Most ASICs shouldn't have an issue with the latter but if you need it to manipulate tags it's ...