User's Manual Part 1

Configuring Network Settings
Chapter 5: Managing Your Network 115
• Port-based
Port-based VLAN allows assigning the appliance's LAN ports to VLANs,
effectively transforming the appliance's four-port switch into up to four firewall-
isolated security zones. You can assign multiple ports to the same VLAN, or
each port to a separate VLAN.
Figure 11: Port-based VLAN
Port-based VLAN does not require an external VLAN-capable switch, and is
therefore simpler to use than tag-based VLAN. However, port-based VLAN is
limited, because the appliance's internal switch has only four ports.
You can define up to ten VLAN networks (port-based and tag-based combined).
For information on the default security policy for VLANs, see Default Security
Policy on page 205.