Sysadmin blog Next year will see the 20th anniversary of IEEE 802.1Q, the standard that defines the tagged VLAN for Ethernet networks. Despite it being two decades since modern VLANs started being ...

It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

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 ...

As the title shows, this post is about private VLANs (PVLAN). This topic shows on VCAP exams, but also on VCP based exams. So if you're studying for VCAP or VCP, this article might be your interest.

In this detailed tutorial, we are going to learn what VLAN tagging is, its advantages and use cases, and how to configure VLAN tagging in Linux operating system. Configuring VLAN tagging in Linux ...

Since the late 1990s, the virtual local area network, or VLAN, has been a crucial component of modern network strategies. Prior to VLAN development, network engineers were required to create multiple ...

This repo is to hold my configuration files for a complex home network based on Mikrotik networking gear. Thank you to all the mikrotik forum posters for all this knowledge and hard work, especially ...