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Chapter 5

Creating and managing VLANs

This chapter describes using Device Manager to manage VLANs on your BayStack 380-24F Gigabit Switch. The chapter covers creating, editing, and deleting VLANs. It includes the following sections:

•VLANs (next)

•Creating VLANs (page 106)

•Modifying and managing existing VLANs (page 109)

VLANs

A VLAN is a collection of ports on one or more switches that define a broadcast domain. The Baystack 380-24F Gigabit switch supports port-based VLANs.

For a further description of VLANs, refer to Using the BayStack 380-24F Gigabit Switch.

When you create VLANs using Device Manager, observe the following rules:

•The ports in a VLAN or MLT must be a subset of a single spanning tree group.

•VLANs must have unique VLAN IDs and names.

Reference for the BayStack 380-24F Gigabit Switch Management Software