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example, if you are creating a VLAN called Sales that will span three
switches, you must assign the same VID value to each Sales VLAN on
the three switches.

Note
A VLAN must have a VID.

7. If you want all received traffic on the ports of the VLAN to be mirrored

to another port on the switch, select the mirroring port from the
Mirroring Port pull-down menu.

This feature is useful when troubleshooting a VLAN. You can analyze
the VLAN traffic by placing a network analyzer on the mirroring port.

In most cases, you should not change this parameter’s default value
of “

“. This value disables port mirroring.

Note
For background information on port mirroring, refer to Port
Mirroring Overview
on page 93
.

8. To select ports for the VLAN, click on the appropriate ports in the

switch image.

Clicking repeatedly on a port toggles the port through the
following possible settings:

Untagged port

Tagged port

Port not a member of the VLAN

9. Click Apply.

Note
The untagged ports that you assign to the new VLAN are
automatically removed from their current VLAN assignment.

The user-configured VLAN is now ready for network operations.
For additional information on user-configured VLANs, refer to
User-Configured VLANs on page 121