User`s guide

AT-9108, AT-8518, AT-8525, and AT-8550 User’s Guide
4-3
Types of VLANs
The switch supports a maximum of 256 VLANs. VLANs can be created
according to the following criteria:
❑
Physical port
❑
802.1Q tag
❑
Ethernet, LLC SAP, or LLC/SNAP Ethernet protocol type
❑
A combination of these criteria
Port-Based
VLANs
In a port-based VLAN, a VLAN name is given to a group of one or
more ports on the switch. A port can be a member of only one port-
based VLAN.
For example, on the G6X module in Figure 4-1, ports 1, 2, and 5 are
part of VLAN
Marketing
; ports 3 and 4 are part of VLAN
Sales
; and port
6 is in VLAN
Finance
.
Figure 4-1
Example of a Port-Based VLAN
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LINK
1000BASE-X NETWORK PORTS
Marketing
Finance
Sales