Comment on VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 8 hours ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
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DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
VLAN is a virtual local area network. Basically what it does is that it can segment out your network to not bring it down or crawl it to a halt when under load.
FrederikNJS@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
In addition people often use VLANs for security segregation. For example you might buy a bunch of cheap Chinese security cameras, but want to ensure that they can’t send anything back to the manufacturer. Then you can make a VLAN with no Internet access for the cameras.