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ES-2108 Series User’s Guide
Chapter 8 VLAN 85
8.3 Port VLAN Trunking
Enable VLAN Trunking on a port to allow frames belonging to unknown VLAN groups to
pass through that port. This is useful if you want to set up VLAN groups on end devices
without having to configure the same VLAN groups on intermediary devices.
Refer to the following figure. Suppose you want to create VLAN groups 1 and 2 (V1 and V2)
on devices A and B. Without VLAN Trunking, you must configure VLAN groups 1 and 2 on
all intermediary switches C, D and E; otherwise they will drop frames with unknown VLAN
group tags. However, with VLAN Trunking enabled on a port(s) in each intermediary switch
you only need to create VLAN groups in the end devices (A and B). C, D and E automatically
allow frames with VLAN group tags 1 and 2 (VLAN groups that are unknown to those
switches) to pass through their VLAN trunking port(s).
Figure 37 Port VLAN Trunking
8.4 Select the VLAN Type
1 Select a VLAN type in the Switch Setup screen.
VLAN Port Port VID This is the VLAN ID assigned to untagged frames that
this port received.
Acceptable frame
type
You may choose to accept both tagged and untagged
incoming frames or just tagged incoming frames on a
port.
Ingress filtering If set, the switch discards incoming frames for VLANs
that do not have this port as a member
Table 14 IEEE 802.1q Terminology (continued)
VLAN PARAMETER TERM DESCRIPTION