It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

Hi everyone,<BR><BR>Need some help with VLAN's on some of our Linux machines. There are 2 linux boxes on the same LAN segment/subnet and each of them has 2 VLAN's configured using vconfig. Each ...

To begin, we must have a more formal definition of what a LAN is. LAN stands for local area network. Hubs and switches usually are thought of as participating in a single LAN. Normally, if you connect ...

The subinterface can then be managed using standard Linux tools (e.g. ip), as any other network device. In Linux, it's not possible to create a subinterface that sends and receives only untagged ...