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, ...

I have a 3650 that has several VLANs configured that are used to feed a couple 5510's an EOC drop and then the 5510's output several networks back into the same 3560. One of the outputs of the 5510 is ...

We have our regular LAN that our domain controllers are sitting on, and a seperate VLAN for one of our high bandwidth systems (a set of 5 servers). We need these five computers to log in to our domain ...

Rate your favorite Cisco Press books. Chapter 3, “Switch Operation,” presents a functional overview of how multilayer switching (MLS) is performed at Layers 3 and 4. The actual MLS process can take ...

Ethernet devices running the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) have been implemented in networks since the early 1990s. Many organizations take STP for granted and do not configure it per industry best ...