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

VLAN Configuration
VLAN Operation and Network Applications 13-11
13.7.2.2 Known Unicasts
When a VLAN switch receives a frame with a known MAC address as its destination address, the
action taken by the switch to determine how the frame is transmitted depends on the VLAN, the
VLAN associated FDB ID, and if the port identified to send the frame is enabled to do so.
When a frame is received it is classified into a VLAN. The destination address is looked up in the
FDB ID associated with the VLAN. If a match is found, it is forwarded out the port identified in
the lookup if, and only if, that port is allowed to transmit frames for that VLAN. If a match is not
found, then the frame is flooded out all ports that are allowed to transmit frames belonging to that
VLAN.
For example, assume that a frame is received by the switch depicted in Figure 13-2. This frame is a
unicast untagged frame received on Port 3. The frame is then classified for VLAN C. The switch
then makes its forwarding decision by comparing the destination MAC address to its filtering
database. In this case, the MAC address is looked up in the filtering database FDB ID 3, which is
associated with VLAN C and VLAN D. The switch recognizes the destination MAC address of the
frame as being located out Port 4.
Having made the forwarding decision, the switch now examines the Port VLAN List of Port 4 to
determine if it may transmit a frame belonging to VLAN C. If so, the frame is transmitted out Port
4. If Port 4 has not been configured to transmit frames belonging to VLAN C, the frame is
discarded.
13.8 VLAN CONFIGURATION
This chapter describes how to set up the switch for local or remote management, and the VLAN
Local Management screens used to create and configure VLANs in the switch.
13.8.1 Managing the Switch
The switch may be managed locally via a terminal connected to the COM port, or remotely
(SNMP or Telnet sessions) from a management station connected to a switch port that is a member
of the same VLAN as the switch’s Host Data Port. (By default, this is the default VLAN.) When
the switch is configured with VLANs, special precautions must be taken to use remote
management.
13.8.2 Switch Without VLANs
When the switch is powered up, the switch uses its default settings to switch frames like an 802.1Q
switch. In this default configuration, all ports are a member of the default VLAN (VLAN 1)
including the virtual Host Data Port of the switch, so any port can be used to manage the device as
shown in Figure 13-3.