I have a Dell PowerConnect 5424.<BR><BR>All I want to do is to take 4 ports and create a VLAN containing those ports so that they can be used for iSCSI (the servers/storage are a foot away).<BR><BR>I ...

Does it make sense to create VLANs to try to improve backup speed? The reason I ask is because we have a storage cluster and backups from it run about 2500MB/min. I talked to vendor about this and ...

Question: When is a network switch not really a switch? Answer: When you’ve configured a Virtual LAN. Then it’s a router…sort of. Don’t worry. Your networking equipment doesn’t need psychotherapy. But ...

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?

The weekend when I made a segmented home network live using OPNsense on a mini PC, I felt genuinely proud. Separate VLANs for IoT devices, trusted machines, and guests. Solid firewall rules to ...