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13 | VLAN Configuration
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
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VLANs can be easily organized to reflect departmental groups (such as
Marketing or R&D), usage groups (such as e-mail), or multicast groups
(used for multimedia applications such as video conferencing).
VLANs provide greater network efficiency by reducing broadcast traffic, and
allow you to make network changes without having to update IP addresses
or IP subnets. VLANs inherently provide a high level of network security
since traffic must pass through a configured Layer 3 link to reach a
different VLAN.
This switch supports the following VLAN features:
Up to 255 VLANs based on the IEEE 802.1Q standard
Distributed VLAN learning across multiple switches using explicit or
implicit tagging and GVRP protocol
Port overlapping, allowing a port to participate in multiple VLANs
End stations can belong to multiple VLANs
Passing traffic between VLAN-aware and VLAN-unaware devices
Priority tagging
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The switch allows 255 user-manageable VLANs. One extra,
unmanageable VLAN (VLAN ID 4093) is maintained for IP clustering.
Assigning Ports to VLANs
Before enabling VLANs for the switch, you must first assign each port to
the VLAN group(s) in which it will participate. By default all ports are
assigned to VLAN 1 as untagged ports. Add a port as a tagged port if you
want it to carry traffic for one or more VLANs, and any intermediate
network devices or the host at the other end of the connection supports
VLANs. Then assign ports on the other VLAN-aware network devices along
the path that will carry this traffic to the same VLAN(s), either manually or
dynamically using GVRP. However, if you want a port on this switch to
participate in one or more VLANs, but none of the intermediate network
devices nor the host at the other end of the connection supports VLANs,
then you should add this port to the VLAN as an untagged port.
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VLAN-tagged frames can pass through VLAN-aware or VLAN-
unaware network interconnection devices, but the VLAN tags should be
stripped off before passing it on to any end-node host that does not
support VLAN tagging.