Virtual local area networks (VLANs) allow us to create different logical and physical networks; whereas IP subnetting simply allows us to create logical networks through the same physical network. You ...

As an elaboration on VLANs, you can associate more than one subnet to a VLAN, and traffic will be able to get from one VLAN to the other via the router. This is particularly handy if you had assigned ...

Charlene, They are technically not the same. However, in practice, often they are implemented as if they were equivalent. A VLAN is created by grouping devices based on their hardware or mac addresses ...

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 ...

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Please help me understand subnets and subnet masks! Are there any dumbed down resources out there that can break it down better than scouring Reddit threads? I'm currently planning on completely ...

For some exam questions, the question doesn’t tell you in which VLAN the frame exists – you must somehow infer it from the available information. Monday’s question did exactly that. Unlike last week’s ...