What you can do with VLANs is dependent on the type of switch gear you have on the network. To do VLANs, at least one device, for example in my case – the core switch where everything on the network ...

When my smart home started out, it had only a few devices connected to the network, mostly from the same company, and it was fairly simple to manage. Over time, the number of devices grew ...

I went a long time without using a managed switch at home. I was never one to really dive deep into networking. As a wee lad, it was within the chassis the majority of my time was spent, but I did ...

For all VLANs, my router and ESXi box are "tagged" ports. Everything else is untagged. I'm now upgrading to a Dell Powerconnect 2816 and I'm a bit confused. The problem is that VLAN 1 cannot be ...

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 ...

i am bonding 5 NICs, trunking a few VLANs across and adding each VLAN interface to a bridge. this is for a KVM hypervisor, where VMs will be connected to the bridge of choice for network connectivity.