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Table 23 VLAN Configuration screen fields (continued)
Field
VLAN Name
Management VLAN Allows you to assign any VLAN as the management VLAN. VLAN 1 is the default
IVL/SVL
VLAN Type
Protocol ID (PID)
208700-C
Description
The specified VLAN is deleted as soon as you press [Return]. The software does
not prompt you to reconsider this action. If you delete a VLAN, all configuration
parameters that are associated with that VLAN are deleted also.
You cannot delete VLAN 1. By default, all switch ports are assigned as untagged
members of VLAN 1 with all ports configured as PVID = 1. See Chapter 1 for more
information.
Default Blank
Range 2 to 4094
Allows you to assign a name field to configured VLANs.
Default VLAN # (VLAN number)
Range Any ASCII string of up to 16 printable characters
management VLAN for the switch. To set this field, the VLAN State field value must
be Active.
Default No
Range Yes, No
Allows you to select either Shared VLAN Learning (SVL), multiple VLANs using a
single forwarding database, or Independent VLAN Learning (IVL), each VLAN using
a unique forwarding database. To set this field, the VLAN State field value must be
Inactive. IVL is a Business Policy Switch-only feature. The IVL option is enabled
only in Pure BPS 2000 Stack mode. The SVL option is enabled in the Hybrid Stack
mode. See "Stack Operational Mode screen" on page
Default SVL (in a mixed stack or in a pure Business Policy Switch stack)
IVL (in a pure Business Policy Switch stack)
Range IVL, SVL
Allows you to select the type of VLAN (port-based, protocol-based, or MAC
SA-based) to create. To set this field, the VLAN State field value must be Inactive.
Default Port-based
Range Port-based, Protocol-based, MAC-SA-based
Allows you to set the protocol type of your VLAN (to set this field, the VLAN State
field value must be Inactive). You can choose from any of 14 predefined supported
protocols (see "Predefined Protocol Identifier (PID) description" on page
you can create your own user-defined protocol-based VLAN (see the User-defined
PID field description for more information).
Default None
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