I'm dealing with layer 3 switching for the first time, as part of moving into a new office. A larger organization has given us some space in their building and is giving us access to their corporate ...

You need at least a pair of “switches”, and you really need more. But there are multiple options for what you buy to do switching with for the lab, and those choices impact the topology you end up ...

I'm looking into getting a managed switch to learn how to setup VLANs. Ultimately I want to setup separate VLANs to segregate devices in the future home. Right now I only have a handful of unmanaged ...

As important as Spanning Tree has been to the acceptance and spread of Ethernet, making it possible to link Ethernet segments without creating loops and packet storms, its inventor, Radia Perlman, ...