Nortel Networks 10BASE-T manual Vlan Configuration

Using the Console Interface

VLAN Configuration

The VLAN Configuration screen (Figure 3-17) allows you to assign VLAN port memberships to standalone or stacked unit ports. You can also create port-based VLANs and protocol-based VLANs:

•Port-based VLANs allow you to explicitly configure switch ports as VLAN port members.

•Protocol-based VLANs allow you to configure your switch ports as members of a broadcast domain, based on the protocol information within a packet.

Protocol-based VLANs can localize broadcast traffic and assure that only the protocol-based VLAN ports are flooded with the specified protocol-type packets.

When you configure ports as VLAN port members, they become part of a set of ports that form a broadcast domain for a specific VLAN. You can assign switch ports, whether standalone or stacked unit ports, as VLAN port members of one or more VLANs.

You can assign VLAN port members attributes that allow the individual ports to operate in accordance with the IEEE 802.1Q tagging rules. You can define each of the VLAN port members as tagged or untagged (see “IEEE 802.1Q Tagging” on page 1-39 for a description of important terms used with 802.1Q VLANs).

You can also use this screen to create and to delete specific VLANs, to assign VLAN names, and to assign any VLAN as the management VLAN.

Choose VLAN Configuration (or press v) from the VLAN Configuration Menu screen to open the VLAN Configuration screen.

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