We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link ...

When a network router doesn't have enough network ports to connect all the necessary devices, a switch can be used to add additional ports. In the case of business networks, switches are often ...

Nutter helps a reader with a new Catalyst switch and a handful of Macs I just converted my company over to a Cisco Catalyst 6509 core switch. Several weeks after the fact I found out that there are a ...

Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. A well-configured internet firewall will ...

I have 2 Cisco WAP371 wireless access points. They support guest network access and VLAN tagging. I want to put the guest wireless network on its own VLAN which doesn't have access to my file server, ...

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...