I manage four Novell servers – two NW6.5sp2 and two NW5.0sp6a. These servers provide services to 5 buildings. These 5 buildings are part of a much larger campus encompassing approximately 40 buildings ...

Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) can be created on your router to help divide and segment smart devices from PCs or TVs.

Nutter helps a reader protect the servers in his growing network. As our network grows in size, so does the need to protect the servers. We have already put in an interior firewall between the servers ...

You may or may not have heard of VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network). It is something that is primarily used in large businesses around the world. If you are interested in opening a business that ...

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 ...

I have a Nested setup and I'm trying to understand how to implement VLANs in this case. I'm asking about Virtual Switch Tagging, where do I add VLANs in this case, on the PortGroups in Physical ESXi ...

The IEEE’s 802.1Q standard was developed to address the problem of how to break large networks into smaller parts so broadcast and multicast traffic wouldn’t grab more bandwidth than necessary. The ...

Have you been told that VLANs are the ultimate solution to your network woes? That they’ll magically secure your infrastructure, eliminate complexity, and solve all your traffic management headaches?

If you know VLANs, tagging and/or HP ProCurve switch you can help. I think I might just break down and get 2nd physical switch for iSCSI separation, but that's more costly, and I was hoping I could ...