Sharing Resources Across 802.1Q Vlans; 802.1Q Vlans Spanning Multiple Switches - D-Link DES-3624i User Manual

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User's Guide

Sharing Resources Across 802.1Q VLANs

Network resources such as printers and servers however, can be shared across 802.1Q VLANs. This is achieved by setting
up overlapping VLANs as shown in the diagram below.
In the above example, there are three different 802.1Q VLANs and each port can transmit packets on one of them
according to their Port VLAN ID (PVID). However, a port can receive packets on all VLANs (VID) that it belongs to. The
assignments are as follows:
The server attached to Port 7 is shared by VLAN 1 and VLAN 2 because Port 7 is a member of both VLANs (it is listed as
a member of VID 1 and 2). Since it can receive packets from both VLANs, all ports can successfully send packets to it to be
printed. Ports 1, 2 and 3 send these packets on VLAN 1 (their PVID=1), and Ports 11 and 12 send these packets on VLAN
2 (PVID=2). The third VLAN (PVID=3) is used by the server to transmit files that had been requested on VLAN 1 or 2
back to the computers. All computers that use the server will receive transmissions from it since they are all located on
ports which are members of VLAN 3 (VID=3).

802.1Q VLANs Spanning Multiple Switches

802.1Q VLANs can span multiple switches as well as your entire network. Two considerations to keep in mind while
building VLANs of this sort are whether the switches are IEEE 802.1Q-compliant and whether VLAN packets should be
tagged or untagged.
Definitions of relevant terms are as follows:
Switch Management Concepts
1 2 3 4
Workstations
Figure 5-4. Example of typical VLAN configuration
PVID
(Port VLAN
ID)
1
1
1
2
2
3
VID
(VLAN ID)
1
2
3
Table 5-2. VLAN assignments for Figure 5-4
VLAN 3
VLAN 2
VLAN 1
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 2
P or t
V ID s = 2
P or t P o rt
V IDs = 1 P V ID = 3
Network
Server
Ports
Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 11
Port 12
Port 7
Member
Ports
1,2,3,7
7,11,12
1,2,3,7,11,12
Graphics
Workstations
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