Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When set up correctly, virtual LANs improve the performance of busy networks. VLANs can group client devices that communicate ...

Question: When is a network switch not really a switch? Answer: When you’ve configured a Virtual LAN. Then it’s a router…sort of. Don’t worry. Your networking equipment doesn’t need psychotherapy. But ...

Listening to camera manufacturers promote the latest and greatest IP video products leads installers to believe that the use of VLAN’s is the solution to IT professionals bandwidth consumption ...

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 ...

Virtual LAN (VLAN) technology, which is defined under the IEEE 802.1q specifications, has allowed enterprise to extend the reach of their corporate networks across the WAN. VLANs enable a LAN to be ...

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A VLAN, or virtual local area network, works in the same way as a physical LAN with the exception that the hosts don't need to be located on the same physical network to be linked. Segmentation is the ...

Is there any way to present a single NIC to a guest that has multiple tagged VLANs presented to it? I'm running a guest OS that is perfectly capable of dealing with tagged packets, but I don't see a ...

Also called a "VLAN," it is a logical subgroup within a local area network that is created via software rather than manually moving cables in the wiring closet. It combines user stations and network ...