Vlan (Monitor) - Draytek Vigor2930 Series User Manual

3 . 2 . 4 V L A N ( M
3 . 2 . 4 V L A N ( M
Virtual LAN function provides you a very convenient way to manage hosts by grouping
them based on the physical port. You can also manage the in/out rate of each port.
LAN Port mirror can be applied for the users in LAN. Generally speaking, this function
copies traffic from one or more specific ports to a target port. This mechanism helps
manager track the network errors or abnormal packets transmission without interrupting the
flow of data access the network. By the way, user can apply this function to monitor all
traffics which user needs to check.
There are some advantages supported in this feature. First, it is more economical without
other detecting equipments to be set up. Second, it may be able to view traffic on one or
more ports within a VLAN at the same time. Third, it can transfer all data traffics to be
mirrored to one analyzer connect to the mirroring port. Last, it is more convenient and easy
to configure in user's interface.
Go to LAN page and select VLAN. The following page will appear. Click Enable to invoke
LAN Port Mirror / VLAN function.
To add or remove a VLAN, please refer to the following example.
1. If, VLAN 0 is consisted of hosts linked to P1 and P2 and VLAN 1 is consisted of hosts
linked to P3 and P4.
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