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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm configuring a Juniper switch with multiple VLANs and putting an IRB interface in each VLAN. A member server (on a downstream switch) in one VLAN can ping all the IRB interfaces and within its own ...