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It's now more than a secure home.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (will ...

One of things you will have to do in the VLAN configuration on the Layer 3 device is enter a command called IP helper-address, followed by the IP address of the system providing the DHCP service.

VLANs break a physical LAN into several logical broadcast domains. Each LAN station hears traffic sent by its own VLAN but receives nothing from stations in other VLANs -- not even from those ...

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 ...