VLANs for Dummies

Professor Robert McMillen shows you all about VLANs. He explains how they got started and why they're needed in a modern network.

[Johxzu]

Thank you so much for this video, it cleared up a lot of confusion about why we would need to configure several VLAN-s on one switch.

[Gino_]

Super useful video. I loved how you broke it down into layman's terms. Thanks!

[podcastbunker]

Thanks for this info. I’m a VLAN rookie. Appreciate it.

[majoraslayer]

That was a fantastic explanation, and it's exactly what I needed to know. I have a large number of smart devices in my house, and I'm starting to run out of IP address. I'm running an Opnsense router, so now I just need to learn how to segment smart devices to 192.168.2.x, computers to 192.168.1.x, game consoles to 192.168.3.x etc. while allowing them to still talk to each other like they're on the same LAN. I know Google Home says it has to be on the same network as the devices it controls, so I have to figure out how to do this so my phones can connect to wifi on the 1.x network for example, but still detect and control devices with 2.x addresses. Off to the search bar I go!

[sauplink]

finally. a SME that can explain this concept. thanks Robert

[gamrgaz]

This video was great. I wish you had a VLAN video explaining the difference between tagged, untagged, excluded, forbidden ports for VLANs. Very confusing.

[thinkscotty]

Funny to find this video randomly and be sitting just minutes from the intersection of those streets in Glen Ellyn : )

[sittingwonderduck]

Thank for you video. I did get somewhat confused towards the end about VLANs which is what I came here for but the explanations about everything before that was easy to understand. Thank you

[rayj]

Thank you for another great vid and mentioning the other vids in the series. Will watch those as well.

[whynotgetupandrave]

Hi great video and explanation. I have one question, how do each of the VLAN use the router to connect to the internet, considering they have x3 separate VLAN / NETWORKS ?

[jaystechstuff]

Great explanation, I actually understood everything.

[CriticoolHit]

Thank you thank you thank you. As with most things. The last 30 seconds was the most important but everything leading up to it allowed me to understand it. I thought I was an idiot. I just wasn't visualizing it properly. Thank you.

[JasonEngland]

Very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

[SteveStowell]

Technically these are each a private non routable networks and not subnets unless you configured them other than /24. After that this is a great way to describe this topic.

[dr.mikehughes]

I need ideas on setting up 4 VLANs. 1. For main computers, one for IoT devices, one for my guests and finally one for my Web Server to isolate it from everyone. Current my default gateway is 192.168.123.254. Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. The web server is static on 192.168.123.104. How would you build the VLANs on a Cisco SV260w router?

[babytina]

Thanks for sharing this.Appreciate it!

[fahadoutlook]

Vlan tag attached and detached on which port ? Access or trunk ?

[DxyMultiVlog]

Thanks for this video, i understand now what vlan do

[Parroteer]

Fucking simple to understand from this video. Thumbs up.