NETGEAR GS728TPP, GS752TP manual Configure Vlan Routing, Vlan Routing Wizard

GS752TP, GS728TP, and GS728TPP Gigabit Smart Switches

Configure VLAN Routing

You can configure the switch software with some ports supporting VLANs and some supporting routing. You can also configure the software to allow traffic on a VLAN to be treated as if the VLAN were a router port.

When a port is enabled for bridging (default) rather than routing, all normal bridge processing is performed for an inbound packet, which is then associated with a VLAN. Its MAC destination address (MAC DA) and VLAN ID are used to search the MAC address table. If routing is enabled for the VLAN, and the MAC DA of an inbound unicast packet is that of the internal bridge-router interface, the packet is routed. An inbound multicast packet is forwarded to all ports in the VLAN, plus the internal bridge-router interface, if it was received on a routed VLAN.

Since a port can be configured to belong to more than one VLAN, VLAN routing might be enabled for all of the VLANs on the port, or for a subset. VLAN routing can be used to allow more than one physical port to reside on the same subnet. It can also be used when a VLAN spans multiple physical networks, or when more segmentation or security is required. This section shows how to configure product family software to support VLAN routing. A port can be either a VLAN port or a router port, but not both. However, a VLAN port might be part of a VLAN that is itself a router port.

VLAN Routing Wizard

The VLAN Routing Wizard allows you to create a VLAN routing interface, configure the IP address and subnet mask for the interface, and add selected ports or LAGs to the VLAN. With this wizard, you can:

•Create a VLAN.

•Add selected ports to the newly created VLAN and remove selected ports from the default VLAN.

•Add selected LAGs to the newly created VLAN.

•Enable tagging on selected ports if the port is in another VLAN. Disable tagging if a selected port does not exist in another VLAN.

•Exclude ports not selected from the VLAN.

•Enable routing on the VLAN using the IP address and subnet mask entered.

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