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4 – EVIC Configuration and Monitoring Features

NOTE:When using tagged VLANs for Ethernet ports, the MTU size should be changed to 1504 since a VLAN tag adds 4 bytes to the message size of a packet. For more information on setting MTU size, please refer to the section “Configure MTU Size” on page 4-13.

Figure 4-25. VLAN Configuration

1.From Menu, select Configuration.

2.Select VLAN Configuration. The VLAN Configuration window is displayed.

NOTE:If the user is configuring VLAN tagging on Ethernet ports only (and not on any host ports), all default values for PortType=Host are acceptable.

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Port Type: Ethernet

Figure 4-26. VLAN Configuration Window: Ethernet Ports

Following is a high-level description for each field in the window: Port Type

A user can select between "Ethernet" and "Host". If set to Ethernet, all fields on the screen are relative to the two external Ethernet ports of the EVIC.

Ext

Specifies the external Ethernet port number. Alias

Alias is the user assigned name for the external port.

PVID

The Primary VLAN ID (PVID) of a port. For any incoming frame(s) without a VLAN tag, or with a VLAN ID of 0 this column specifies which VLAN the incoming frame(s) will be associated with. By default, untagged packets or those with a VLAN ID of 0 (also known as priority tagged frames) are assigned

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