In the IP based Ethernet networks, data and voice services are often transmitted simultaneously over the network. Voice traffic, in particular, requires a higher forwarding priority than data traffic.

Another thing to consider: In my configuration I have enabled VLAN encapsulated trunking on the fiber ports between switches. This is the best way I have found to deal with a multi-switch, multi-VLAN ...

It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

ARP requests are crossing VLAN boundaries: On host B, executing 'arping -i eth1.11 -0 172.16.0.1', 'arping -i eth1.10 172.16.1.1', 'arping -i eth1.10 192.168.0.1' will return replies from host A. I ...