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 ...

A VLAN isn't just good for keeping clients separate from one another, it's also handy for creating a guest network. Perhaps you don't want just anyone hooking up to your home network and ...

When getting into VLANs, you will see two types of switches, Layer 2 and Layer 3. Layer 3 switches are the more configurable and thus more expensive.

A VLAN is created by grouping devices based on their hardware or mac addresses. Devices communicate only with other devices in the same group. This is enforced by the Ethernet switch of the switch ...

A broadcast sent by PC1 must be in VLAN 2, and it must arrive at PC2. That same broadcast frame must not arrive at SW3. If a switch relies on VTP to learn VLAN 2, that switch must use a VTP ...

Right now I've made port 4 on the router an access port for VLAN 27 with my PLEX server on it and it receives an IP from the .27 subnet (which is why I went with VLAN #27, for clarity) and I can ...