What are HP-UX VLANs?
Types of VLANs Supported by HP-UX
Types of VLANs Supported by HP-UX
The types of HP-UX VLANs that you can create are as follows:
•NIC-Port Based--A group of physical LAN card ports belong to the same layer-2 broadcast domain. Each LAN card port transmits and receives frames belonging to the VLAN associated with that port.
Members of the same port-based VLAN all have the same VLAN ID. A VLAN ID uniquely identifies the VLAN to which a frame belongs.
•Protocol Based--Common protocols such as IP, IPX, AppleTalk, Decnet, and NetBIOS are grouped into layer-2 broadcast domains.
•IP Subnet Based--Each IP subnet has its own unique VLAN. Traffic from different subnets is logically separated from each other as if each subnet were on a different LAN segment.
Please refer to “Planning HP-UX VLANs” in this document for more information on setting up the different types of VLANs described.
HP-UX VLANs conform to IEEE specifications 802.1Q (for VLAN tagging) and IEEE 802.1p (MAC-level frame prioritizing) to provide end-to-end class of service (CoS).
