Benefits of VLANs?
What are virtual lans or vlans? What are they used for and will they allow me to increase my networks overall speed and throughput ratio?

Answer Question   |  August 16, 2010  2:45 PM
Network speed, Throughput, Virtual LAN, VLAN, Wireless in 2010

Network monitoring tool to alert when the network is too saturated?
Is there a network monitoring tool to alert me to when my network becomes too saturated and recommend what to do like spit more subnets or set up vlans? How can I view collisions and the such?

Answer Question   |  August 13, 2010  1:54 PM
Network Monitoring Tools, Subnets, VLAN, Wireless in 2010, Wireless Network, Wireless networking

How do you implement Active directory with VLAN?
How do you implement Active directory with VLAN

Answer Question   |  July 12, 2010  1:25 PM
Active Directory Deployment, Active Directory Integration, VLAN, VLAN management

Difference in configuration of core and distribution layer switches
We have collapsed backbone haireicheal model in our network. All interface vlan routing and l3 configuration is done on core switches itself. But i want to know that If i have core-distribution-access layer model then vlan routing should be done in distribution layer so what should i have to configure on core layer?    

Answer Question   |  June 23, 2010  10:21 AM
Cisco 4506, Core Switches, core-distribution-access layer model, Switches, VLAN, VLAN Routing

D-link des3526 switch configuration, can only ping one of two servers.
Port assigned for vlan1 is 1 to 25, port assigned for vlan2 is 26. I could ping gateway or browse  internet from vlan1. But from vlan2 I can not ping or browse. 

Answer Question   |  July 1, 2010  5:44 PM
D-Link DES 3526, D-Link port configuration, Routers, Switch configuration, VLAN, VLAN configuration

HP Procurve vs Cisco switches comparison
can you please provide me a comparison between HP Procurve switches and Cisco Switches in these points : ports,VLANs,link aggregation ,spanning tree,PoE,VoIP,DHCP,routing using OSPF

Answer Question   |  June 27, 2011  5:43 AM
Cisco switches, DHCP, HP ProCurve, Switches, VLAN, VoIP

Allowing Vlans between Cisco L3 switch and 3 com Layer2 switch.
Hello All, I have a cisco Cat 3560G switch trunked to a 3com 4200 L2 switch. I have 4 Vlans created on the Cisco L3 switch like Vlan 10, 20, 30 and 40 and created only 20 and 30 on the 3 COM. All the trunk port configurations are fine. However when i assign a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2010  6:29 AM
Cisco switches, Layer 3 switches, Swicthes, Trunk between Cisco Cat and Layer2 3 com, VLAN, VLAN configuration, VLAN trunking

Adding an IP Subnet to a VLan on L3 Switch
I need help adding an IP subnet to a Vlan, when I attempt to by using the IP address X.X.X.X 255.255… it gives me an error saying it overlaps another VLAN. is there another way to do this? I am on a 3750 cisco switch, IP routing is turned on. Please help!!! thanks in advance.

Answer Question   |  May 14, 2010  1:05 AM
Cisco 3750, Cisco switches, ip subnet, IP Subnetting, L3 switch, Layer 3 switches, Switches, VLAN

VLAN Configuration help, 3com 4500 26port
[u3:p][/u3:p] Create vlans Add ports to vlans Set port 1 as trunk and also added as tagged to all vlans At port 1 i connect my adsl modem router (dhcp enabled). 4500 switch gets 192.168.1.100 as it’s ip but all other computers can’t get their ip by the dhcp if they are connected via 4500 [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2010  7:59 PM
3Com, DHCP, VLAN, VLAN configuration

1 DHCP to Multiple VLAN Cisco 3560
Hi all, 1 .How to configure DHCP assign ip to different subnet? 2. How to configure DHCP Server? 3. How to configure CISCO 3560 become DHCP relay agent?  Hardware: DHCP Server is installed on Server 1 (Windows 2008 R2) TMG2010 is installed on Server 2 (Windows 2008 R2) Cisco 3560 Switch DHCP Server: Native VLAN [...]

Answer Question   |  May 5, 2010  2:16 PM
Cisco 3560, Cisco switches, DHCP, Switches, VLAN, Windows Server 2008 R2 Networking

How to avoid a server from using an unauthorized IP ?
I don’t know for sure how to ask for it, so I’ll explain it to you first:[Br style=”padding: 0px; margin: 0px;” />[Br style=”padding: 0px; margin: 0px;” />- I currently have a Linksys SRW224G4 switch, in which I have connected 10 servers. [Br style=”padding: 0px; margin: 0px;” />- From those, 9 servers are ours, and the other one is [...]

Answer Question   |  April 29, 2010  6:32 PM
ACL Manager, Cisco, IP, Linksys switch, SRW224G4, Switches, VLAN

getting VLAN working between netgear switch fs726t and WG102 AP
Hi everyone, Im setting this up for a church and well stright to the point….. I am trying to set up 2 SSID’s on the AP both on diffrent VLANS I have a cisco 1700 router connected to the switch(FS726T) and have VLANs configured already on both the router and switch. (They work) On the [...]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2010  7:56 PM
Access Point troubleshooting, Access Points, Cisco 1700, VLAN, VLAN configuration, VLAN Tagging

Multiple VLANS and using two internet sources
I have a T1 from my telephone provider. I also am installing Cable internet. I need to point my Administration vlan to the cable and my student vlan to the T1. But my Verticle voip phone system runs a phone management app that needs to stay on the Administration vlan and point to the T1. My [...]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2010  9:10 PM
Multi-nat routing, Routers, VLAN, VLAN configuration, Windows 7 Networking

how many vlans for telepresence switch 3750?
how many vlans for telepresence switch 3750? I did data vlan,video vlan, voice vlan and management vlan. am I still left any vlans? by the way, what book is good for telepresence configuration?

Answer Question   |  April 23, 2010  7:59 AM
Cisco 3750, Cisco 3750 configuration, Cisco TelePresence, Switches, VLAN, VLAN configuration

vlans and subnets
would different vlans have different subnets?

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2010  1:03 AM
Subnet, VLAN

Cisco Voice VLan
Hi Can any one please explan me about Vocie Vlan.

Answer Question   |  April 29, 2010  3:18 PM
CCVP, Unified Communications, VLAN, Voice services, Voice VLAN, VoIP

trace route problem in the same subnet Alcatel Core switch connecting several VLANS togethers
We have an Alcatel Core switch connecting several VLANS togethers. Everything is running fine as we desire, except for the following problem.  If I run the trace route (tracert) from a computer to another and these two computers are on the same subnet and connected to the same switch module, in some cases I get [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2010  1:33 PM
Alcatel Core Switch, Switches, VLAN

trace route problem in the same subnet Alcatel Core switch connecting several VLANS togethers
We have an Alcatel Core switch connecting several VLANS togethers. Everything is running fine as we desire, except for the following problem.  If I run the trace route (tracert) from a computer to another and these two computers are on the same subnet and connected to the same switch module, in some cases I get [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2010  1:40 PM
Alcatel Core Switch, Networking, Swicthes, Tracert, VLAN

Propagating vlan’s over a eigrp?
Hello, I have 2 switches – one in building X and the other in building Y. The buildings are connected via fiber and eigrp is the protocol that’s setup between them. The buildings are p2p connections between 7200′s. I need the Vlans to be propagated from switch “y” to switch “x” over the L3 connection. [...]

Answer Question   |  June 21, 2011  9:10 PM
Cisco, Cisco 7200, Cisco switches, EIGRP, HP ProCurve, HP switches, Switches, VLAN

windows 7 DHCP issue
Window 7 machines are picking IP on only some vlans.  I suspected the issue might be trunking and checked. But strange to see trunking configuration are same… Please suggest.

Answer Question   |  March 12, 2010  3:35 AM
DHCP, VLAN, Windows 7