Configuring VLANs

Client 1

Port 1/1

VLAN 101

. . .

 

Client 1

 

192.168.1.69/24

 

Ports 1/1 - 1/5

Untagged

Device A

Tag Type 8100

Device E

Tag Type 8100

192.168.1.129/24

Client 3

 

 

 

Client 5

Client 6

 

 

Client 8

 

 

 

Client 10

Port 1/3

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Port 1/5

Port 1/1

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Port 1/3

. . .

Port 1/5

VLAN 103

VLAN 105

VLAN 101

VLAN 103

VLAN 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

209.157.2.12/24

 

 

Ports 1/1 - 1/5

 

 

Untagged

 

 

Device B

Port 2/1

Port 2/1

Tag Type 8100

Tagged

Tagged

 

Port 3/1

Port 3/2

 

Untagged

Untagged

 

Device C

 

 

Tag Type 9100

 

 

VLAN Aggregation

 

 

Enabled

Port 4/1

 

 

 

 

Tagged

 

 

Port 4/1

 

 

Tagged

 

Device D

 

 

Tag Type 9100

 

 

VLAN Aggregation

 

 

Enabled

 

 

Port 3/1

Port 3/2

 

Untagged

Untagged

 

Port 2/1

Port 2/1

 

Tagged

 

Tagged

 

 

 

Ports 1/1 - 1/5

Ports 1/1 - 1/5

Device F

Tag Type 8100

Untagged

Untagged

 

Figure 16.17 Example Super Aggregated VLAN Application

In this example, a collocation service provides private channels for multiple clients. Although the same devices are used for all the clients, the VLANs ensure that each client receives its own Layer 2 broadcast domain, separate from the broadcast domains of other clients. For example, client 1 cannot ping client 5.

The clients at each end of a channel appear to each other to be directly connected and thus can be on the same sub-net and use network services that require connection to the same sub-net. In this example, client 1 is in sub- net 192.168.1.0/24 and so is the device at the other end of client 1’s channel.

Since each VLAN configured on the core devices is an aggregate of multiple client VLANs, the aggregated VLANs greatly increase the number of clients a core device can accommodate.

This example shows a single link between the core devices. However, you can use a trunk group to add link-level redundancy.

Configuring Aggregated VLANs

To configure aggregated VLANs, perform the following tasks:

On each edge device, configure a separate port-based VLAN for each client connected to the edge device. In each client VLAN:

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