Switch Setup - ZyXEL Communications GS3700 Series User Manual

resources of another on the same LAN, thus a user will not see the printers and hard disks of
another user on the same network.
VLAN also increases network performance by limiting broadcasts to a smaller and more
manageable logical broadcast domain. In traditional switched environments, all broadcast packets
go to each and every individual port. With VLAN, all broadcasts are confined to a specific broadcast
domain.
Note: VLAN is unidirectional; it only governs outgoing traffic.
See Chapter 7 on page 81

6.4 Switch Setup

Click Basic Setting > Switch Setup in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown. The
VLAN setup screens change depending on whether you choose 802.1Q or Port Based in the VLAN
Type field in this screen. Refer to the chapter on VLAN.
Figure 24 Basic Setting > Switch Setup
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 11 Basic Setting > Switch Setup
LABEL
VLAN Type
Bridge Control
Protocol
Transparency
Chapter 6 Basic Setting
for information on port-based and 802.1Q tagged VLANs.
DESCRIPTION
Choose 802.1Q or Port Based. The VLAN Setup screen changes depending on whether
you choose 802.1Q VLAN type or Port Based VLAN type in this screen. See
page 81 for more information.
Select Active to allow the Switch to handle bridging control protocols (STP, for example).
You also need to define how to treat a BPDU in the Port Setup screen.
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