Planet Technology VC-412 User Manual

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VC-412 User’s Manual

non-communicative to the other ports on the VC-412 in regards to local traffic.

Deactivating VLAN allows the switch to act as a normal Ethernet VC-412, by passing

along multicast and broadcast traffic to each port. Disabling this feature would be useful

when installing the VC-412 in office settings and for file/print sharing.

Within the ICD command interface or web interface, you can turn the VLAN function on or

off. In ICD simply type “VO” to activate the VLAN function, and “VF” to deactivate the

VLAN function.

Note that when VLAN is on, group 1 to 12 is categorized by one VDSL port and two

Ethernet ports (port-A and port-D). Hence, Ethernet port-B and port-C will not grant any

bandwidth to VDSL ports. Therefore, trunking can be only done via port-A and port-D.

Turning VLAN off will enable all four Ethernet ports accessible to all VDSL ports, however,

it sometimes causes the switch to halt since the Ethernet port-B and port-C are designed

for different purposes.

VC-412 also allows VLAN Grouping, which enables user to define ports to communicate

with each other, while remaining isolated from the other ports (outside the defined range)

traffic. The VC-412 supports up to 16 different groupings, and can only be set within the

ICD Command Interface. The ICD Command for VLAN Grouping is VG.

The command line format is as follow:

[VG] [Group]-[port1,…,portN]

Important: Same ports can exist in different groups, however each invocation of the VG

for the same group will overwrite the previously saved list for that group.

Examples:

To group VDSL port-1, port-2, and Ethernet port-A together you will need to issue the

following commands:

Syntax Description

[VG]

Command string.

[Group]

Group number, from 01 to 16.

[-] Command

string

[port1,…,portN]

List of ports to be included in the group
separated by commas, the VDSL ports are
numbered with 01 to 12 and Ethernet ports are
ordered from A to D.