User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Title
 - Notice
 - Contents
 - Figures
 - Tables
 - About This Guide
 - Introduction
 - Local Management Requirements
 - Accessing Local Management
- 3.1 Navigating Local Management Screens
 - 3.2 Password Screen
 - 3.3 Main Menu Screen
 - 3.4 Module Selection Screen
 - 3.5 Module Menu Screen
 - 3.6 Overview of Security Methods
 - 3.7 Security Menu Screen
 - 3.8 Passwords Screen
 - 3.9 Radius Configuration Screen
 - 3.10 Name Services Configuration Screen
 - 3.11 System Authentication Configuration Screen
 - 3.12 EAP (Port) Configuration Screen
 - 3.13 EAP Statistics Menu Screen
 - 3.14 MAC Port Configuration Screen
 - 3.15 MAC Supplicant Configuration Screen
 
 - Chassis Menu Screens
- 4.1 Chassis Menu Screen
 - 4.2 Chassis Configuration Screen
 - 4.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
 - 4.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
 - 4.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
 - 4.6 Chassis Environmental Information Screen
 - 4.7 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen (Chassis)
 - 4.8 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
 - 4.9 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
 
 - Module Configuration Menu Screens
- 5.1 Module Configuration Menu Screen
 - 5.2 General Configuration Screen
- 5.2.1 Setting the IP Address
 - 5.2.2 Setting the Subnet Mask
 - 5.2.3 Setting the Default Gateway
 - 5.2.4 Setting the TFTP Gateway IP Address
 - 5.2.5 Setting the Module Name
 - 5.2.6 Setting the Module Date
 - 5.2.7 Setting the Module Time
 - 5.2.8 Entering a New Screen Refresh Time
 - 5.2.9 Setting the Screen Lockout Time
 - 5.2.10 Configuring the COM Port
 - 5.2.11 Clearing NVRAM
 - 5.2.12 Enabling/Disabling IP Fragmentation
 
 - 5.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
 - 5.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
 - 5.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
 - 5.6 Access Control List Screen
 - 5.7 System Resources Information Screen
 - 5.8 FLASH Download Configuration Screen
 
 - Port Configuration Menu Screens
- 6.1 Port Configuration Menu Screen
 - 6.2 Ethernet Interface Configuration Screen
 - 6.3 Ethernet Port Configuration Screen
 - 6.4 HSIM/VHSIM Configuration Screen
 - 6.5 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen
 - 6.6 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
 - 6.7 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
 - 6.8 Link Aggregation Screen (802.3ad Main Menu Screen)
 - 6.9 Broadcast Suppression Configuration Screen
 
 - 802.1 Configuration Menu Screens
 - 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screens
- 8.1 Summary of VLAN Local Management
 - 8.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screen
 - 8.3 Static VLAN Configuration Screen
 - 8.4 Static VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
 - 8.5 Current VLAN Configuration Screen
 - 8.6 Current VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
 - 8.7 VLAN Port Configuration Screen
 - 8.8 VLAN Classification Configuration Screen
 - 8.9 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
 
 - 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens
- 9.1 802.1p Configuration Menu Screen
 - 9.2 Port Priority Configuration Screen
 - 9.3 Traffic Class Information Screen
 - 9.4 Traffic Class Configuration Screen
 - 9.5 Transmit Queues Configuration Screen
 - 9.6 Priority Classification Configuration Screen
 - 9.7 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
 - 9.8 Rate Limiting Configuration Screen
 
 - Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screens
 - Module Statistics Menu Screens
 - Network Tools Screens
 - VLAN Operation and Network Applications
- 13.1 Defining VLANs
 - 13.2 Types of VLANs
 - 13.3 Benefits and Restrictions
 - 13.4 VLAN Terms
 - 13.5 VLAN Operation
 - 13.6 Configuration Process
 - 13.7 VLAN Switch Operation
 - 13.8 VLAN Configuration
 - 13.9 Summary of VLAN Local Management
 - 13.10 Quick VLAN Walkthrough
 - 13.11 Examples
 - 13.12 Example 1, Single Switch Operation
 - 13.13 Example 2, VLANs Across Multiple Switches
 - 13.14 Example 3, Filtering Traffic According to a Layer 4 Classification Rule
 - 13.15 Example 4, Securing Sensitive Information According to Subnet
 - 13.16 Example 5, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic
 - 13.17 Example 6, Locking a MAC Address to a Port Using Classification Rules
 
 - Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
 - About IGMP
 - Index
 

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13.6 Configuration Process...................................................................................13-8
13.6.1 Defining a VLAN ...........................................................................13-8
13.6.2 Classifying Frames to a VLAN ...................................................... 13-8
13.6.3 Customizing the VLAN Forwarding List ........................................13-8
13.7 VLAN Switch Operation ................................................................................13-9
13.7.1 Receiving Frames from VLAN Ports...........................................13-10
13.7.2 Forwarding Decisions .................................................................13-10
13.7.2.1 Broadcasts, Multicasts, and Unknown Unicasts..........13-10
13.7.2.2 Known Unicasts........................................................... 13-11
13.8 VLAN Configuration ....................................................................................13-11
13.8.1 Managing the Switch...................................................................13-11
13.8.2 Switch Without VLANs................................................................13-11
13.8.3 Switch with VLANs......................................................................13-12
13.9 Summary of VLAN Local Management.......................................................13-14
13.9.1 Preparing for VLAN Configuration ..............................................13-15
13.10 Quick VLAN Walkthrough ...........................................................................13-16
13.11 Examples ....................................................................................................13-21
13.12 Example 1, Single Switch Operation...........................................................13-22
13.12.1 Solving the Problem....................................................................13-22
13.12.2 Frame Handling ..........................................................................13-24
13.13 Example 2, VLANs Across Multiple Switches .............................................13-24
13.13.1 Solving the Problem....................................................................13-26
13.13.2 Frame Handling ..........................................................................13-29
13.14 Example 3, Filtering Traffic According to a Layer 4 Classification Rule......13-32
13.14.1 Solving the Problem....................................................................13-32
13.15 Example 4, Securing Sensitive Information According to Subnet...............13-33
13.15.1 Solving the Problem....................................................................13-34
13.16 Example 5, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic .................................13-34
13.17 Example 6, Locking a MAC Address to a Port Using Classification Rules .13-36
13.17.1 Solving the Problem....................................................................13-36
A
GENERIC ATTRIBUTE REGISTRATION PROTOCOL (GARP)
A.1 Operation ........................................................................................................A-1
A.2 How It Works...................................................................................................A-2
B
ABOUT IGMP
B.1 IGMP Overview...............................................................................................B-1
B.2 Supported Features and Functions.................................................................B-2
B.3 Detecting Multicast Routers ............................................................................B-3
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