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Types of VLANs
The switch supports a maximum of 256 VLANs. VLANs can be created
according to the following criteria:
❑ Physical port
❑ 802.1Q tag
❑ Ethernet, LLC SAP, or LLC/SNAP Ethernet protocol type
❑ A combination of these criteria
Port-Based
VLANs
In a port-based VLAN, a VLAN name is given to a group of one or
more ports on the switch. A port can be a member of only one port-
based VLAN.
For example, on the G6X module in
, ports 1, 2, and 5 are
part of VLAN Marketing; ports 3 and 4 are part of VLAN Sales; and port
6 is in VLAN Finance.
Figure 4-1 Example of a Port-Based VLAN
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