Owner's Manual

260 | Chapter 9. VLANs
NETGEAR 8800 User Manual
state it another way, one of the VLAN members with overlapping ports does not require a
dedicated loopback port, and the rest of the VLAN members do require a single, dedicated
loopback port within each member VLAN.
Note: There is a limit to the number of unique source MAC addresses on
the network VLAN of a PVLAN that the switch can manage. It is
advised not to exceed the value shown in the item “FDB (maximum
L2 entries)” in the Supported Limits table of the NETGEAR 8800
Installation and Release Notes.
Configuring PVLANs
The following sections describe common PVLAN configuration tasks:
• Creating PVLANs on page 260
• Configuring Network VLAN Ports for VLAN Translation on page 261
• Configuring Non-Isolated Subscriber VLAN Ports on page 261
• Configuring Isolated Subscriber VLAN Ports on page 262
• Configuring a PVLAN on Multiple Switches on page 262
• Configuring a Network or Subscriber VLAN Extension to Another Switch on page 263
• Adding a Loopback Port to a Subscriber VLAN on page 263
• Managing Layer 3 Communications in a PVLAN on page 263
• Deleting PVLANs on page 263
• Removing a VLAN from a PVLAN on page 263
Creating PVLANs
To create a VLAN, you need to do the following:
• Create the PVLAN
• Add one VLAN to the PVLAN as a network VLAN
• Add VLANs to the PVLAN as subscriber VLANs
To create a PVLAN, use the following command:
create private-vlan <name> {vr <vr_name>}
To add a network VLAN to the PVLAN, create and configure a tagged VLAN, and then use
the following command to add that network VLAN:
configure private-vlan <name> add network <vlan_name>
To add a subscriber VLAN to the PVLAN, create and configure a tagged VLAN, and then use
the following command to add that subscriber VLAN: