518CHAPTER 13: VLAN MANAGEMENT

where:

Table 82 Show VLANs Toolbar VLAN Descriptions

Identifier

Description

 

 

name

name specified by user when creating the VLAN

 

on the switches

xxxx

VLAN ID specified by user when creating the

 

VLAN on the switches

 

 

The name component is restricted to 20 characters. When creating a VLAN, all current 3Com switches allow up to 32 characters for the VLAN name. Where a name is greater than 20 characters long, 3Com Network Director uses an ellipsis … at the end of the name to restrict it to 20 characters, the name is thus truncated to 17 characters.

One VLAN, configured with inconsistent names on multiple switches

It is good practice to use the same VLAN name when configuring a VLAN on multiple switches. However, if a consistent name has not been used when configuring a VLAN on multiple switches, 3Com Network Director will choose one of the names to refer to the VLAN. For example, with the network below 3Com Network Director would have to choose between using the name Engineering or Eng to refer to the VLAN:

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