i have a hypervisor where i am bonding interfaces, trunking vlans and bridging the different vlans for vm guests to connect to. call me old (skool), but i dont want a guest vm being able to "vlan hop" ...

Spanning tree protocol is an essential function of Ethernet networks, and it provides several useful capabilities when used properly. However, STP can cause havoc when a network carrying live video is ...

If you are considering a network design that has a ring topology and you desire to use Ethernet, then you should first be aware of the issues of using Ethernet with a ring architecture. Ethernet is ...

Radia Perlman - engineer, author, inventor and now director of network and security at Intel, has arrived in Australia to speak at the linux.conf.au conference in Canberra. Perlman is most renowned ...

Dr. Alexander Pasik, Chief Information Officer, IEEE, interviews Radia Perlman, IEEE Fellow and inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol You are an IEEE Fellow and well-known to anyone in the networking ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Building enterprise networks with routers and switches ...