User Guide

Table Of Contents
96 Configuring and Managing Ports and VLANs
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Displaying VLAN Information
To display VLAN configuration information, use the following command:
show vlan config [vlan-id]
To display information for VLAN burgundy, type the following command:
23x0# show vlan config burgundy
Admin VLAN Tunl Port
VLAN Name Status State Affin Port Tag State
---- ---------------- ------ ----- ----- ---------------- ----- -----
2 burgundy Up Up 5
2 none Up
3 none Up
4 none Up
6 none Up
11 none Up
(For information about the fields in the output, see the Nortel WLAN Security Switch 2300 Software Command
Reference.)
Managing the Layer 2 Forwarding Database
An WSS switch uses a Layer 2 forwarding database (FDB) to forward traffic within a VLAN. The entries in
the forwarding database map MAC addresses to the physical or virtual ports connected to those MAC
addresses within a particular VLAN. To forward a packet to another device in a VLAN, the WSS switch
searches the forwarding database for the packet’s destination MAC address, then forwards the packet out the
port associated with the MAC address.
Note. The display can include AP access ports and wired authentication ports, because
WSS Software dynamically adds these ports to a VLAN when handling user traffic for the
VLAN.