It’ll take some time, but you definitely should set aside the weekend to assign static IPs and fix any routes that break in your homelab. It might be a headache, but it’ll save you from even bigger ...

T he more complex my home network became over the years, the more time I spent tweaking it to achieve the best performance ...

A virtual local area network is a logical subnetwork that groups a collection of devices from different physical LANs. Large business computer networks often set up VLANs to re-partition a network for ...

I've decided to get off my ass and finally get VLANs setup at home. I'm looking for ideas on how people have their's set that works well. I figure at the most basic I could do something like a ...

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 ...

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 have a connection coming into the house, then into a Synology router. I have 2 VLANS set up, the default one and a 2nd one called Secure. I don't have Ethernet run in my house but we have 6 coax ...

In the IP based Ethernet networks, data and voice services are often transmitted simultaneously over the network. Voice traffic, in particular, requires a higher forwarding priority than data traffic.

For some exam questions, the question doesn’t tell you in which VLAN the frame exists – you must somehow infer it from the available information. Monday’s question did exactly that. Unlike last week’s ...

Q: I have a Cisco L3 3560 switch, 5 unmanaged switches and 150 users. I need to create 10 VLANs. How can I configure my VLAN given the switches I have? It depends on how many users you would need in ...