B&B Electronics 708TX - Manual User Manual
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Example 6 – Basic understanding of VLANs with Multicast Filtering
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Receiving 
Port # 
Tagged VID 
in packet 
Destination 
Address 
Transmitting 
Port #s 
Notes
TX1
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:01 TX2
Goes to ports TX1-TX8, but TX1 can only 
send to TX2 (VLAN 4) 
TX3
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:02 TX6, TX8
Goes to ports TX2, TX6-TX8 (VLAN 3) but 
filter keeps it on ports TX6 and TX8 only 
TX2
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:01 TX1,TX3-TX8
Goes to ports TX1-TX8, but won‘t go back 
out the port it came in on 
TX2
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:02 TX1,TX3-TX8
Goes to ports TX1,TX3-TX8
TX3
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:01 TX2, TX4-TX8
Goes to ports TX2, TX4-TX8
TX6
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:02 TX8
Goes to port TX8
TX3
Untagged
01:00:00:00:00:02 TX6, TX8
Goes to ports TX6 and TX8
Note: If there are multiple ports on different VLANs, the 708 will apply the static multicast address to the 
lowest VLAN-ID that is associated with one of the ports assigned to the static multicast address. If the 
lowest VLAN-ID contains all the ports assigned to the static multicast address (an umbrella VLAN), it will 
function for all those ports with no problems. This can be achieved with overlapping VLANs. 
 
 
For further information and examples on overlapping vlans, see: 
http://www.n-tron.com/pdf/OverlappingPortVLAN.pdf 
 
