C H A P T E R
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Configuring Private VLANs
This chapter contains the following sections:
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Guidelines and Limitations for Private VLANs, page 27
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Information About Private VLANs, page 28
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Configuring a Private VLAN, page 34
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Verifying the Private VLAN Configuration, page 42
Guidelines and Limitations for Private VLANs
When configuring PVLANs, follow these guidelines:
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You must create a VLAN before you can assign the specified VLAN as a private VLAN.
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You must enable PVLANs before the switch can apply the PVLAN functionality.
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You cannot disable PVLANs if the switch has any operational ports in a PVLAN mode.
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Enter the
private-vlan synchronize
command from within the Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) region
definition to map the secondary VLANs to the same MST instance as the primary VLAN.
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You must disable all the FEX isolated trunk ports before configuring FEX trunk ports.
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The number of mappings on a PVLAN trunk port is limited to 128.
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You cannot connect a second switch to a promiscuous or isolated PVLAN trunk. The promiscuous or
isolated PVLAN trunk is supported only on host-switch.
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You cannot configure promiscuous ports and promiscuous trunk ports on the FEX interfaces (HIF) ports.
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If you configure a
private-vlan association
under a VLAN, but do not configure the
private-vlan type
as primary, this association will reappear in the running configuration under the same VLAN when the
VLAN is deleted and re-created. Note that this earlier association cannot be removed by using the
no
private-vlan association
command. It can be removed only by performing either of the following tasks:
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Disable the PVLAN feature.
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