Dell Force10 MXL Blade - Creating a Community VLAN; Creating an Isolated VLAN

396 | Private VLANs (PVLAN)
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Creating a Community VLAN
A community VLAN is a secondary VLAN of the primary VLAN in a Private VLAN. The ports in a
community VLAN can talk to each other and with the promiscuous ports in the primary VLAN. To create
a community VLAN, follow these steps:
Creating an Isolated VLAN
An isolated VLAN is a secondary VLAN of a primary VLAN. Its ports can only talk with the promiscuous
ports in that primary VLAN. To create an isolated VLAN, follow these steps:
To configure the PVLAN member VLANs (primary, community, and isolated VLANs), use the following
commands in VLAN INTERFACE mode (Figure 22-2).
Step Command Syntax Command Mode Purpose
1
interface vlan vlan-id CONFIGURATION Access INTERFACE VLAN mode for the VLAN that you
want to make a community VLAN.
2
no shutdown
INTERFACE VLAN Enable the VLAN.
3
private-vlan mode
community
INTERFACE VLAN Set PVLAN mode of the selected VLAN to community.
4
tagged interface
or
untagged interface
INTERFACE VLAN Add one or more host ports to the VLAN. The interfaces
can be entered singly or in range format, either
comma-delimited (
slot/port,port,port) or hyphenated (slot/
port-port).
You can only add host (isolated) ports to the VLAN.
Step Command Syntax Command Mode Purpose
1 interface vlan vlan-id CONFIGURATION Access INTERFACE VLAN mode for the VLAN that you
want to make an isolated VLAN.
2
no shutdown
INTERFACE VLAN Enable the VLAN.
3
private-vlan mode isolated
INTERFACE VLAN Set PVLAN mode of the selected VLAN to isolated.
4
tagged interface
or
untagged interface
INTERFACE VLAN Add one or more host ports to the VLAN. The interfaces
can be entered singly or in range format, either
comma-delimited (slot/port,port,port) or hyphenated (slot/
port-port).
You can only add ports defined as host to the VLAN.