First a little back story. First, I work for a budget-stripped public library. Second, I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to Cisco IOS, but I'm a pretty good googler. Third, I'm attempting to ...

I set a port on a switch to trunking, but it won't pass data. Here's the scenario. See if you can help me out.<BR><BR>We have two switches and two VLANs. Actually, we have over a hundred switches and ...

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 ...

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, ...