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Allied Telesis AT-S60 User Manual

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Chapter 13: Virtual LANs

Section II: Local and Telnet Management

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workstations physically, or having to change group memberships
by moving cables from one switch port to another.

A virtual LAN can also span more than one switch. This means that
the end nodes of a VLAN do not need to be connected to the same
switch and so are not restricted to being in the same physical
location.

The AT-8400 Series switch supports the following types of VLANs that
you can create and modify yourself:

❑ Port-based VLANs

❑ Tagged VLANs

❑ Basic VLAN mode

These VLANs are described in the following sections.