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 ...

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'm doing some volunteer work for a non profit org and found they have an interesting network setup. I'm not sure if I should change their current configuration or leave it as is since its ...

Our data center is heavily virtualized with ~50 VMs per ESX host with ~20 ESX boxes configured the same way. Most of these VM's share a single vSwitch for network traffic which is connected to the LAN ...