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VLAN
Click on VLAN under Advanced on the main menu to reach the VLAN advanced configuration page.
Figure 14. VLAN page
VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) allows a physical network to be partitioned into multiple logical net- works. Devices on a logical network belong to one group. A device can belong to more than one group. With VLAN, a device cannot directly talk to or hear from devices that are not in the same group.
With MTU
VLAN also increases network performance by limiting broadcasts to a smaller and more manageable logical broadcast domain. In traditional switched environments, all broadcast packets go to each every individual port. With VLAN, all broadcasts are confined to a specific broadcast domain.
You can select from two types of VLAN: 802.1Q
Figure 15 on page 44 shows a diagram of possible VLAN connections.
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