Chapter 7 Basic Setting
VLAN also increases network performance by limiting broadcasts to a smaller and more manageable logical broadcast domain. In traditional switched environments, all broadcast packets go to each and every individual port. With VLAN, all broadcasts are confined to a specific broadcast domain.
"VLAN is unidirectional; it only governs outgoing traffic.
See Chapter 8 on page 79 for information on
7.5Switch Setup Screen
Click Basic Setting and then Switch Setup in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown. The VLAN setup screens change depending on whether you choose 802.1Q or Port Based in the VLAN Type field in this screen. Refer to the chapter on VLAN.
Figure 27 Basic Setting > Switch Setup
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 10 Basic Setting > Switch Setup
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
VLAN Type | Choose 802.1Q or Port Based. The VLAN Setup screen changes depending on |
| whether you choose 802.1Q VLAN type or Port Based VLAN type in this screen. |
| See Chapter 8 on page 79 for more information. |
|
|
MAC Address | MAC address learning reduces outgoing traffic broadcasts. For MAC address |
Learning | learning to occur on a port, the port must be active. |
|
|
Aging Time | Enter a time from 10 to 3000 seconds. This is how long all dynamically learned MAC |
| addresses remain in the MAC address table before they age out (and must be |
| relearned). |
|
|
70 |
| |
| ||
|
|
|