As an elaboration on VLANs, you can associate more than one subnet to a VLAN, and traffic will be able to get from one VLAN to the other via the router. This is particularly handy if you had assigned ...

Charlene, They are technically not the same. However, in practice, often they are implemented as if they were equivalent. A VLAN is created by grouping devices based on their hardware or mac addresses ...

I'm thinking about changing the layout of my home/lab network to segment off my new security alarms, smoke detectors, etc. Current thinking is I'll keep the gateway on: Guest WiFi: 10.0.4.1/24 (will ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week I’ll wrap up the lab by showing what I think is the “best” (shortest) config to complete the lab variation #2 from last week’s post. For those that missed the last two weeks, we’re in the ...