Operation Manual

VigorSwitch G1260 User’s Guide
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In the figure above, all stations are within the same broadcast domain. For these stations, it
is obviously that the traffic is getting congested while adding more stations on it. With the
more and more users joining the LAN, broadcast traffic will rapidly decrease the
performance of the network. Finally, the network may get down.
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The switch image is sample only.)
Now we apply VLAN technology to configure the system shown as the figure above. We
can partition the users into the different logical networks which have their own broadcast
domain. The traffic will not disturb among these logical networks. The users 1x (x denotes
a ~ d) are members of VLAN 1. Any traffic within VLAN 1 does not flow to VLAN 2 and