Asante Technologies Vlan Management, Vlan Specifications for the IntraCore 35160 Series

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4.3 VLAN Management

A virtual LAN, or VLAN, is a logical grouping that allows stations to communicate as if they were physically connected to a single LAN, independent of the actual physical configuration of a network. The IntraCore 35160 supports port-based VLANs, in compliance with the IEEE 802.1Q standard. The following sections describe how to configure and manage VLANs on the switch. For more information on VLANs, see Chapter 7 Switching Concepts.

4.3.1 VLAN Specifications for the IntraCore 35160 Series

The switch supports the following features of the IEEE 802.1Q standard:

Port-based VLAN management

Up to 1024 manually-configurable VLANs

Default VLAN

VLAN creation and deletion

VLAN port member addition and deletion

VLAN untagged set addition and deletion

Configurable VID range: 2 to 4094

Port VID configurable range: 1 to 4094

Port ingress filtering

Port admit frame type

Independent VLAN learning (IVL)

Shared VLAN learning (SVL)

GVRP for dynamic VLAN learning (to be supported; later versions)

Single STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) spanning multiple VLANs

SNMP-based VLAN management

Other VLAN Features of the switch

VLAN management security

VLAN MAC address insertion and removal

Console UI management of VLANs

Web interface management of VLANs

The management operations allowed are as follows:

Creation

Deletion

Name configuration

VID change configuration

Adding and deleting port members

Adding and deleting untagged sets

Sharing and unsharing VLANs

Inserting and removing MAC addresses

Toggling management access

To access the VLAN Management Menu, type v in the Configuration Menu. A screen similar to the following appears:

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