DES-3326S Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
A VLAN that does not have a corresponding IP interface defined for it, will function as a Layer 2 Only VLAN – regardless of the Switch Operation mode.
Layer 3-Based VLANs
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Even though a switch inspects a packet’s IP address to determine VLAN membership, no route calculation is performed, the RIP protocol is not employed, and packets traversing the switch are bridged using the Spanning Tree algorithm.
A switch that implements layer 3 (or ‘subnet’) VLANs without performing any routing function between these VLANs is referred to as performing ‘IP Switching’.
IP Addressing and Subnetting
This section gives basic information needed to configure your Layer 3 switch for IP routing. The information includes how IP addresses are broken down and how subnetting works. You will learn how to assign each interface on the router an IP address with a unique subnet.
Definitions
•IP Address – the unique number ID assigned to each host or interface on a network. IP addresses have the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
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