Nutter helps a reader protect the servers in his growing network. As our network grows in size, so does the need to protect the servers. We have already put in an interior firewall between the servers ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

I'm looking at the mess the previous IT team left in their wake with regards to the logical layout of the network. I've been here approaching a year and a half and it's got to the point it is driving ...

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 ...

It’s easy to see why virtual LANs have become popular on networks of all sizes. Imagine having multiple separate physical networks within a single organization — without the headache of managing ...

Over time VLANs are deployed in corporate networks in a variety of ways, including network security authentication, a way to let wireless clients roam among 802.11b access points, a method of ...

What they do, why they're useful, and how to get started A virtual local area network is a logical subnetwork that groups a collection of devices from different physical LANs. Large business computer ...

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 ...

Network vendors have fallen prey to vulnerabilities in Ethernet VLAN protocol implementations. While only Cisco and Juniper Networks are confirmed to have vulnerable products at this stage, a notice ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Campus networks carry almost every type of network traffic imaginable. Faculty and staff computers ...