Can anybody give me a step by step guide for setting up multiple VLANs on a Cisco 1841 modular router? I can't find anything to help me through my problem, which, incidentally, is that I can create ...

In Cisco LAN switch environments, the native VLAN is typically untagged on 802.1Q trunk ports. This can lead to a security vulnerability in your network environment. It is a best practice to ...

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 ...

A quick comparison of EoMPLS, VPLS and A-VPLS really reflects the learning curve the network industry has experienced as the technologies are deployed. All three are PW services and use a MPLS ...

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 ...

I've got a problem, I've been trying to implement some layer2 security on our switches with Port-Security, only allowing 2 MAC addresses on any 1 switchport. I've been looking at some of our switches ...

The average home now has dozens of networked devices, from computers to smart devices and streaming boxes. Each of these comes with different considerations about how they use the network, and that's ...

To begin, we must have a more formal definition of what a LAN is. LAN stands for local area network. Hubs and switches usually are thought of as participating in a single LAN. Normally, if you connect ...

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, ...