Allied Telesis 2.6.1 manual Layer

Chapter 6

Layer 3

The AT-8800 Series Switch routes IP and IP multicasting traffic at wire speed between VLANs, and supports a number of other Layer 3 protocols. Once a VLAN has been created (see “Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)” on page 72), the VLAN name can be used wherever a logical interface is required in commands for configuring routing protocols.

VLAN names are of the form:

VLAN-vlanname

or

VLANn

where vlanname is the manager-assigned name of the VLAN, and n is the VLAN identifier (VID).

For example, to create a VLAN called “admin” with a VID of 11, and add port 3 to it, use the commands:

CREATE VLAN=admin VID=11

ADD VLAN=11 PORT=3

The following names can be used to identify this VLAN in routing commands:

vlan-admin

vlan11

The following sections illustrate the use of VLANs for IP, RIP, IPX, AppleTalk and RSVP. For a complete description of all the protocols supported by the switch, see the Rapier Switch Software Reference.