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Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 Version 1.2
With software version 1.2, the VLAN Configuration Menu screen (Figure66)
allows you to select the appropriate screen to configure up to 256 VLANs. VLAN
1 is port-based by default. You can configure the remaining 255 VLANs to be of
any appropriate combination of types, although you have a maximum of 48 MAC
SA-based VLANs.
You can configure as many as 255 protocol-base d VLANs, with up to 14 dif fer ent
protocols. The number of different protocols you can configure depends on the
number of hexadecimal values (PID values) associated with the protocol type.
Some protocol types use more than one PID value. Refer to “Predefined Protocol
Identifier (PID) description” on page194. A port may not be a member of more
than one protocol-based VLAN with the same PID. (Untagged ports cannot
belong to different VLANs of the same protocol type; however, tagged ports can.)
You can configure up to 48 MAC SA-based VLANs. Up to 48 MAC addresses
can be used with the existing MAC SA-based VLANs. Due to hardware
limitations, it is possible that some MAC address cannot be entered, depended on
the values of MAC addresses previously entered.
Server Timeout Allows you to specify how long the switch waits for the RADIUS server to
respond to all EAP packets.
Default 30 seconds
Range 1 to 65535 seconds
Maximum Requests Allows you to specify the number of times the switch attempts to resend EAP
packets to a supplicant.
Default 2 attempts
Range 1 to 10 attempts
Note: Only standalone or pure stacks of BPS 2000 support 256 VLANs.
A mixed stack that consists of BPS 2000 and BayStack 450 switches has
only 64 VLANs. Refer to “Using 356 VLANs” in Chapter 1 for more
information on using 256 VLANs.
Tabl e 21 EAPOL s ecurity configuration screen options (continued)
Option Description