I was wondering, would it be possible for a Linux server to be fed thousands of VLANs over an interface and then route IP packets over those interfaces? In other words, one NIC on the Linux server is ...

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, ...

I was reading about the Cisco EEM and came across an interesting script that can monitor the interface state through the syslog messages. You can set it up to administratively shutdown an interface if ...