User’s Manual
4.6 VLAN
4.6.1 VLAN Overview
A Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) is a network topology configured according to a logical scheme rather than the physical
layout. VLAN can be used to combine any collection of LAN segments into an autonomous user group that appears as a single
LAN. VLAN also logically segment the network into different broadcast domains so that packets are forwarded only between
ports within the VLAN. Typically, a VLAN corresponds to a particular subnet, although not necessarily.
VLAN can enhance performance by conserving bandwidth, and improve security by limiting traffic to specific domains.
A VLAN is a collection of end nodes grouped by logic instead of physical location. End nodes that frequently communicate with
each other are assigned to the same VLAN, regardless of where they are physically on the network. Logically, a VLAN can be
equated to a broadcast domain, because broadcast packets are forwarded to only members of the VLAN on which the
broadcast was initiated.
1. No matter what basis is used to uniquely identify end nodes and assign these nodes VLAN
membership, packets cannot cross VLAN without a network device performing a routing
function between the VLAN.
2. The Industrial Managed Switch supports IEEE 8
02.1Q VLAN. The port untagging function can
be used to remove the 802.1 tag from packet headers to maintain compatibility with devices
The Industrial Managed Switch's default is to assign all ports to a single 802.1Q VLAN named
DEFAULT_VLAN. As new VLAN is created, the member ports assigned to the new VLAN will be
removed from the DEFAULT_ VLAN port member list. The DEFAULT_VLAN has a VID = 1.
This section has the following items:
VLAN Port Configuration Enables VLAN group
VLAN Membership Status Displays VLAN membership status
VLAN Port Status Displays VLAN port status
Private VLAN Creates/removes primary or community VLANs
Port Isolation Enables/disables port isolation on port
MAC-based VLAN Configures the MAC-based VLAN entries
MAC-based VLAN Status Displays MAC-based VLAN entries
IP Subnet-based VLAN Configures the IP Subnet-based VLAN entries
Protocol-based VLAN Configures the protocol-based VLAN entries
Protocol-based VLAN
Membership
Displays the protocol-based VLAN entries
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