First and foremost I'm attempting to isolate one machine in a small manufacturing business from all others. I set up this machine with Ubuntu and a web browser, nothing more, and it will be used for ...

Managed switches are fantastic devices with a wealth of features to enhance your local area network (LAN). Most people can get by with a simple unmanaged switch, which handles traffic routing and that ...

The typical small business probably has one or more unmanaged network switches to connect their PCs, servers and storage. While those unmanaged switches may still have value in parts of the network, ...

If I have a handful of "smart" switches that will handle 802.1Q vlan tagging both at the perimeter and the core of my network, will the tags survive if there is a completely dump unmanaged switch ...

Managed switches offer essential features like VLANs, redundancy protocols, and traffic monitoring that unmanaged switches simply cannot provide, making them the preferred choice as industrial ...

I went a long time without using a managed switch at home. I was never one to really dive deep into networking. As a wee lad, it was within the chassis the majority of my time was spent, but I did ...