Asante Technologies 6200 manual Overview Using tagging to connect VLANs, Setting the Port

Setting the Port

VLAN ID

Toggle VLAN Tagging

VLAN Port Attribute Configuration

You can assign a port VID of any value in the range of 1 - 4094. When the port VID is equal to the VID of one of the VLAN Groups in the system, the port becomes a member of that VLAN Group. If the given port VID value does not match with the VID of any VLAN Group in the system, an error message is displayed:

Invalid port VID, press any key to continue

To assign a port VID, press i in VLAN Port Attribute Configuration Menu.This displays the message:

Enter Port VID (1 - 4094) >

Enter a value within the range and press return.

If the given value does not match with the VID of any VLAN Groups in the system, a warning message is displayed:

Invalid Port VID, press any key to continue

If the given value is a value of one the existing VIDs, then the port VID (PVID) is set with the value, and the screen changes to the VLAN Port attribute screen of the corresponding VLAN Group, with the port number equal to the current port number. The port is now displayed as a * in the VLAN Group's member set.

ΔNote: Since the port VID does not have any sig- nificance for a tagged port, setting port VID is not available for tagged ports.

This option, t in the VLAN Port Attribute Configuration Menu, is used to create a tagged port or expansion port.The purpose of a tagged port is to open a line of communication between VLANs on two or more compatible IntraSwitches. Before you enable tagging, read the following overview, then refer to the example shown in Figure 9-3.

Overview: Using tagging to connect VLANs

Use the following procedure to connect two IntraSwitches so that users on a VLAN defined in one switch can communicate with users on a matching VLAN defined on the other switch.

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