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, ...

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 ...

Setting up virtual local area networks or VLANs in your home network or home lab makes management of your network easier. You can use one as a guest network to share your internet connection with ...

If I'm not mistaken, this simply means that you haven't created the appropriate VLAN interface/assigned it an IP. This is fine, so long as no routing needs to take place to that particular VLAN, which ...

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 ...

To keep up with department stores’ demands for quick turnaround and to reduce labor costs in its 300,000 square-foot Stockton, Calif., facility, wholesaler Dorfman Pacific last year installed a ...