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 ...

This means a separate subnet and corresponding VLAN for each group of devices such as printers, servers, workstations, APs, etc.This allows for each group to have as much room as we could possibly ...

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 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.

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 ...