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 ...

Lately, I’ve heard many mentions, pro and con, of using virtual LANs to solve QoS challenges in wireless LANs. If like me, you’ve been confused by some of this talk, read on. First, several vendors ...

In Cisco LAN switch environments, the native VLAN is typically untagged on 802.1Q trunk ports. This can lead to a security vulnerability in your network environment. It is a best practice to ...

A virtual LAN (VLAN) is a broadcast domain created by switches. VLANs are a convenient way to connect ports from different switches and different buildings onto the same network and broadcast domain, ...

I have a connection coming into the house, then into a Synology router. I have 2 VLANS set up, the default one and a 2nd one called Secure. I don't have Ethernet run in my house but we have 6 coax ...