Overview - Allied Telesis AT-2400T Installation Manual

VLAN

Overview

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Allied Telesyn's ATMUX protocol driver allows you to configure virtual
LANS (VLANS) for the AT-2450FTX, AT-2700 Series, AT-2915 Series, and
AT-2930 Series Network Adapters. Allied Telesyn's ATMUX driver is
based upon the 802.1Q standard, a special 4-byte tag inserted into every
Ethernet frame.
With VLANs you can logically group end-nodes that consist of clients
and servers that reside in a common broadcast domain without any
router hops. The benefit of this is an isolated broadcast domain with no
physical limitations within your switch fabric.
This can be a great benefit as employees move, business restructure, and
technologies merge. By offering a flexible structure VLANS can reduce
performance bottlenecks that occur when traditional routers cannot
meet fast growing demand.
Note
Before installing the VLAN protocol driver the latest driver Windows
2000/XP Ndis 5 driver (version 4.1.10) must be installed in the
operating system.
To properly configure the ATMUX VLAN protocol driver, the VLAN ID and
IP Subnet that the network adapter card will be participating in are
required. The system administrator should be able to provide the
configuration details.