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5 rules I use for sane VLAN design at home (without overcomplicating it)

T he average home now has dozens of networked devices, from computers to smart devices and streaming boxes. Each of these ...
Network World

Chapter 12: Multilayer Switching

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 ...
Linux Journal

Linux Networking: Mastering VLAN Trunking, Bonding, and QoS for High-Performance Systems

Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow the segmentation of a physical network into multiple logical networks. VLAN trunking is the process of transporting multiple VLANs over a single network link—typically ...
Ars Technica

Juniper EX4600 - IRB interface not routing

I'm configuring a Juniper switch with multiple VLANs and putting an IRB interface in each VLAN. A member server (on a downstream switch) in one VLAN can ping all the IRB interfaces and within its own ...
Ars Technica

How can I verify VLAN tagging?

I can easily enough get into the switch and setup a VLAN with several ports, and I think I'm doing everything correctly in pfSense to get that VLAN up and running, but nothing is working. Is there a ...