I am looking to add a dedicated vlan in order to setup a private/public network SSID combo with a cisco access point. private for employees and public for visitors limited to the internet only.

When it comes to CCNP prep, what do you really need in your lab? I’m not talking about what would be nice to have, or handy, or useful once in a while. But what’s enough to practice everything, or at ...

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 ...

The third layer of the OSI Model, the network layer, is where most network engineers focus their time and expertise. As Darragh commented in my post on the data link layer, Layer 2 is cool but Layer 3 ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...

I had a great time meeting with a variety of customers at Cisco Live in Orlando back in June. We covered a lot of different topics around data center security. One specific item that came up more than ...