HomePNA Switch Installation and Setup Manual
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11. SETTING VLAN FUNCTIONALITY
The VLAN function offers security and flexibility of controlling each port
access from one to another. This feature is useful in MDU and hotel situations
where you would not want each computer to be able to “see” all other
computers connected to the switch. However, in some situation you may need
to have a few ports with the capability of communicating with one another.
Such situations may arise for sharing of files, collaboration software, faster
multi-player gaming, etc.
Activating the VLAN function allows each port to be individualized, and
non-communicative to other ports on the switch in regards to local traffic.
Deactivating VLAN allows the switch to act as a normal Ethernet/HomePNA
Switch by passing along multicast and broadcast traffic to each port. Disabling
this feature would be useful when installing the switch in an office setting and
file sharing/print sharing.
Through ICD command interface you can turn the VLAN function on or
off. In ICD interface simply type “VO” to activate VLAN function, and “VF” to
deactivate the VLAN function.
HomePNA Switch also allows VLAN Grouping, which enable switch
administrators to defined ports to communicate with each other, while
remaining isolated from the other ports (outside the defined range) traffic.
The HomePNA Switch supports up to 16 different groupings, and can
only be
set within the ICD Command Interface.
The command line format is as follow:
[VG][group][-][port1,…,portN]
Syntax Description
[VG] Command
string.
[group]
Group number (in decimal) to set, from 1
to the number of ports + trunks.
[-]
Separator between the group number and
the ports.
[port1,…, portN]
List of ports to be included in the group
separated by commas, the ports are
numbered from 1 to12, the trunks are
considered as ports and are numbered
using letters from A to D.
Important:
Each invocation of the VG for the same group will overwrite the
previously saved list for that group.
