Allied Telesis manual AT-S79 Management Software User’s Guide

AT-S79 Management Software User’s Guide

VLANs can be used to control the flow of data in your network, since the traffic generated by an end-node in a VLAN is restricted to the other end- nodes in the same VLAN. In addition, VLANs can prevent data from flowing to unauthorized end-nodes.

Types of VLANs The AT-GS950/16 and AT-GS950/24 switches support the following types of VLANs:

ˆPort-based VLANs

ˆTagged VLANs

The VLANs are described in the following sections.

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