Asante Technologies 8000 Other Vlan Features in IntraCore, Overview of VLANs, Vlan Management

VLAN Management

Other VLAN Features in IntraCore 8000

GVLAN management security

GVLAN MAC address insertion and removal

GConsole UI management of VLANs

GWeb interface management of VLANs

The management operations allowed are:

GCreation

GDeletion

GName configuration

GVID change configuration

GAdding and deleting port members

GAdding and deleting untagged sets

GSharing and unsharing VLANs

GInserting and removing MAC addresses

GToggling management access

Overview of VLANs

This section describes the concepts needed to configure and manage VLANs on IntraCore switches.

Benefits of VLAN Management

Unnecessary flooded traffic wastes bandwidth on a LAN, potentially clogging the network. Flooded traffic is traffic that is sent to all ports on the switch because the destination is a broadcast or multicast address, or because the location of the destination is unknown.

Traditional layer 2 bridges and switches attempt to limit unnecessary flooded traffic by learning the addresses of stations on the switch. But as traffic expands rapidly on today’s networks, bandwidth wastage from layer 2 flooding can easily become a network bottleneck.

The traditional solution to the problem of broadcast flooding is to use a layer 3 device like a router. The trade-offs that accompany the use of routers include higher initial cost, more latency with decreased network performance, and higher maintenance and configuration expenses.

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