Allied Telesis AT-2973SX, AT-2973T/4 manual Updating Priority & Vlan Property

Chapter 8: Setting Advanced Properties

Updating the

Priority & VLAN

Property

Priority allows you to prioritize traffic or limit bandwidth instead of treating all traffic in the same manner. A Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) is a logical area network that extends beyond a traditional LAN to a group of logical LANs. By default, this property is enabled.

To set the port priority and assign a VLAN ID, do the following:

1.Access the Advanced tab:

For Windows Server 2003 Operating systems, see “Selecting the Advanced Tab in Windows Server 2003” on page 100.

For Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 Operating systems, see “Selecting the Advanced Tab in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7” on page 103.

For Windows Operating systems, see “Selecting the Advanced Tab in Windows Vista” on page 104.

The Advanced tab is shown in Figure 19 on page 102.

2.From the Property list on the Advanced tab, select “Priority & VLAN.”

3.From the Value list on the Advanced tab, select one of the following:

Priority & VLAN Disabled

Priority & VLAN Enabled

Priority Enabled

VLAN Enabled

4.Click OK.

5.If prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

Although it is not necessary to reboot the system for new adapter properties to take effect, rebooting is recommended to reinitialize all registers.

6.Verify that the port LEDs are operating correctly. See one of the following descriptions:

“AT-2973SX Adapter Physical Description” on page 17

“AT-2973T Adapter Physical Description” on page 18

“AT-2973T/4 Adapter Physical Description” on page 21

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