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Chapter 12 Configuring Private VLANs Configuring Private VLANs
Secondary and Primary VLAN Configuration
Follow these guidelines when configuring private VLANs:
You use VLAN configuration mode to configure private VLANs. F or more information about VLAN
configuration, see the “Creating and Modifying VLANs” section on page 11-7.
You must configure private VLANs on each device where you want private-VLAN ports.
A private VLAN cannot be a UNI-ENI VLAN.
To change a UNI-ENI isolated VLAN (the default) to a private VLAN, enter the private-vlan
VLAN configuration command; this overwrites the default isolated VLAN configuration.
To change a UNI-ENI community VLAN to a private VLAN, you must first enter the no
uni-vlan VLAN configuration command to return to the default UNI isolated VLAN
configuration.
You cannot configure VLAN 1 or VLANs 1002 to 1005 as primary or secondary VLANs. Extended
VLANs (VLAN IDs 1006 to 4094) can belong to private VLANs
A primary VLAN can have one isolated VLAN and multiple community VLANs associated with it.
An isolated or community VLAN can have only one primary VLAN associated with it.
Although a private VLAN contains more than one VLAN, only one Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
instance runs for the entire private VLAN. When a secondary VLAN is associated with the primary
VLAN, the STP parameters of the primary VLAN are propagated to the secondary VLAN.
You can enable DHCP snooping on private VLANs. When you enable DHCP snooping on the
primary VLAN, it is propagated to the secondary VLANs. If you configure DHCP on a secondary
VLAN, the configuration does not take effect if the primary VLAN is already configured.
If the switch is running the metro access or metro IP access image and you enable IP source guard
on private-VLAN ports, you must enable DHCP snooping on the primary VLAN.
You can apply different quality of service (QoS) configurations to pr imary , isolat ed, and community
VLANs.
When the switch is running the metro IP access image and you configure private VLANs, sticky
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is enabled by default, and ARP entries learned on Layer 3
private VLAN interfaces are sticky ARP entries. For security reasons, private VLAN port sticky
ARP entries do not age out.
Note We recommend that you display and verify private-VLAN interface ARP entries.
Connecting a device with a different MAC address but with the same IP address displays a message
and the ARP entry is not created. Because the private-VLAN port sticky ARP entries do not age out,
you must manually remove private-VLAN port ARP entries if a MAC address changes.
You can remove a private-VLAN ARP entry by using the no arp ip-address global conf iguration
command.
You can add a private-VLAN ARP entry by using the arp ip-address hardware - address type
global configuration command.
You can configure VLAN maps on primary and secondary VLANs (see the “Configuring VLAN
Maps” section on page 31-28). However, we recommend that you configure the same VLAN maps
on private-VLAN primary and secondary VLANs.