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Adding a VLAN
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Click Yes to add the ports.
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Click No to close the Connection Information window without adding the ports.
If EPICenter cannot find a path, it displays an error window.
10 When you have finished adding ports to the VLAN, click Apply to implement the changes.
The VLAN is created on the switches whose ports are members of the new VLAN.
Once you have added a VLAN, you can specify an IP address and mask for the VLAN on each switch,
and also enable or disable the global IP Forwarding behavior of the switches on which the VLAN
resides.
1 Select the IP Forwarding tab at the top of the Add VLAN window.
The IP Forwarding page is displayed, as shown in Figure 160 .
Figure 160: Add VLAN dialog, IP Forwarding page
The display lists the switches that you specified to be members of this VLAN., and shows whether
IP Forwarding is already enabled on the each switch.
2 Select a switch from the table of switches.
3 Enter an IP address and IP mask as appropriate. Click the Enable GLOBAL IP Forwarding on
switch check box to enable IP forwarding on the switch.
CAUTION
This changes the IP Forwarding behavior for the entire switch, not just for the selected VLAN.
4 Click Apply to implement the changes.
5 Click Close to exit the window.