64 Summit 300-48 Switch Software User Guide
Virtual LANs (VLANs)
VLANs ease the change and movement of devices.
With traditional networks, network administrators spend much of their time dealing with moves and
changes. If users move to a different subnetwork, the addresses of each endstation must be updated
manually.
Types of VLANs
VLANs can be created according to the following criteria:
Physical port
802.1Q tag
A combination of these criteria

Port-Based VLANs

In a port-based VLAN, a VLAN name is given to a group of one or more ports on the switch. A port
can be a member of only one port-based VLAN. The Summit 300-48 switch supports L2 port-based
VLANs.
For example, on the Summit 300-48 switch in Figure1, ports 1:1 through 1:12 are part of VLAN Sales;
ports 1:13 through 1:24, and port 1:51 are part of VLAN Marketing; ports 1:25 through 1:36, and port 1:50
are part of VLAN Finance, and ports 1:37 through 1:48, and port 1:52 are part of VLAN Corporate.
Figure 1: Example of a port-based VLAN on the Summit 300-48 switch
For the members of the different IP VLANs to communicate, the traffic must be routed by the switch.
This means that each VLAN must be configured as a router interface with a unique IP address.
Sales
Marketing
Finance Corporate
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