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ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 13-7
Adding a VLAN
1 Click the Add button in the VLAN Manager panel.
The Add VLAN dialog box, Properties & Ports page is displayed, as shown in
Figure 13-5.
Figure 13-5: Add VLAN dialog, Properties and Ports page
2 EnteradescriptivenamefortheVLAN.Thenamemustbeginwithaletterfollowedby
up to 31 characters. See the ExtremeWare Software User Guide for details on VLAN
naming.
3 Select an entry from the pull-down Protocol Filter list. This selection determines what
protocol (if any)is used to determine membership in this VLAN. If you do not want to
specify a protocol, select ANY. This means the filtering rules will match all unfiltered
protocols.
4 If the VLAN is to be tagged, enter a 802.1Qtag value in the Ta g field.Thetagvaluecan
be a numberbetween 2 and4095. Byentering a tag number,you enable tagging for this
VLAN. Enter the text “untagged” or 0 (zero) to indicate that the VLAN is to be
untagged.
5 To adda port totheVLAN, firstselect theswitch from theAvailable Switches list. This
displays a list of ports on the switch that are available to be included in the VLAN.
The Available Ports list does not include ports in SummitLink™ mode, or ports
configured as slave load sharing ports.