CCNA requites that you understand various ways to tweak the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) topology. CCNP SWITCH requires that you master those features, plus other more advanced STP tools. And the new ...

Those who had an opinion last week were split evenly: CCNA labs need either 2 or 3 switches, and CCNP labs need either 3 or 4. But why? We saw a few opinions floating around the blog last week, but ...

I've got a customer with a Dell switch (power connect 6248 I think) with 3 uplinks to my network. The uplinks are separate layer 3 links, each one being a separate IP block in a separate VLAN on my ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

I just bought a GS110TPv3 with the intention of setting up VLANs to eventually segregate WiFi traffic from a common UniFi WAP, but first I wanted to test with just a plain ol' laptop and Ethernet ...