July 2024
Beginner
608 pages
18h 25m
English
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In chapter 11, we covered subnetting, which allows us to divide a network into smaller subnets. This is an example of network segmentation—the division of a network into smaller parts. Virtual LANs (VLANs, pronounced “V-LANs”), the topic of this chapter, can be likened to subnets in that they also allow us to divide up a network into smaller parts. With VLANs, we can divide a LAN (a broadcast domain) into smaller LANs, called VLANs. Whereas subnets allow us to segment the network at Layer 3, VLANs allow us to segment the network ...
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