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?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When set up correctly, virtual LANs improve the performance of busy networks. VLANs can group client devices that communicate ...

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 ...

For all VLANs, my router and ESXi box are "tagged" ports. Everything else is untagged. I'm now upgrading to a Dell Powerconnect 2816 and I'm a bit confused. The problem is that VLAN 1 cannot be ...

I've decided to get off my ass and finally get VLANs setup at home. I'm looking for ideas on how people have their's set that works well. I figure at the most basic I could do something like a ...