Articles by admin
Thu, 03/31/2011
Virtual LANs, or VLANs, allow one to treat a switch as if it were multiple independent switches, coexisting in the same box. The switch is told to group its ports, some to one virtual switch, others to another. The end result is to have multiple LANs (virtual LANs, or VLANs) coexisting on the same hardware. You could get the same result by buying multiple switches, one for each independent LAN. VLANs just let you do this with fewer switches. That's all. (There's some added complexity when you start talking about trunking and about layer 3 switchin
Tue, 03/22/2011
Anyone who has Internet Explorer 8 in their environment, especially on XP, has probably run into this problem: every so often, you'll go to start the browser and get a screen welcoming you to Internet Explorer 8 and asking you set up various options. The thing is, you've probably done this before. Or perhaps this is a new computer for a new employee, who isn't a technical person and doesn't care about these questions or even necessarily understand them.
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