When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...

It’s time to wrap up (hoorah!) this spring’s foray into the question of what to put in your CCNA lab. I hope that you’ve found the series useful. Today, I’ll touch on a few final points with switches, ...

After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...

Discover how to build a low-power, high-performance home lab that’s energy-efficient, cost-effective, and secure without ...

Upgrading to a managed switch for my home unlocked increased control, VLAN support, link aggregation, and other advanced features.

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...

Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. Now a solution called Free ...

As an avid home lab enthusiast, I’ve gone through trial and error to figure out how to keep the bad guys out while maintaining remote access to some, if not all, of ...