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VLANS on PRO/100 Adapters

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A VLAN is a logical grouping of network devices put together as a LAN regardless of their physical grouping or collision domains. VLANs let a user see and access only specified network segments. This optimizes network efficiency and maintains security access restrictions. VLANs require special switches that are capable of supporting VLANs. All PRO/100+, PRO/100 S PCI and PRO/1000 adapters currently support VLANs when attached to a VLAN enabled switch. The PRO/100 VE and VM Desktop Adapters and Network Connections do not support VLANs.

A VLAN offers you the ability to group users and client PCs together into logical workgroups, a critical consideration when connecting clients to servers that are geographically dispersed across the building, campus, or enterprise network.

Typically, VLANs consist of a common set of coworkers within the same department but in different locations, a cross-functional team working on a joint project,

or a diverse set of users sharing the same network application. Joining workers across the network forms logical working groups.

By using VLANs on your network, you can:

-Improve network performance

-Limit broadcast storms

-Improve adds, moves, and changes

-Minimize security problems

-Ease your management task

For overview information on Intel VLANs, visit the Intel Networking Web site: http://www.intel.com/network

For more specific information, read the white paper on VLANs:

http://www.intel.com/network/tech_brief/virtual_lans.htm

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