Viewing And Configuring Ports By Vlan - Motorola RFS7000 Series System Reference Manual

5. Use the Edit screen to modify the following:
Name
Mode
Native VLAN
Allowed VLANs
6. Refer to the Status
error messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.
7. Click OK to use the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.
8. Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.

4.3.2 Viewing and Configuring Ports by VLAN

A Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) is a switched network segmented by function or application rather than
a traditional LAN segmentation (based on physical location). VLANs allow a greater level of flexibility and
enable changes to the network infrastructure without physically disconnecting network equipment.
To view VLAN by Port information:
1. Select Network
2. Select the Ports by VLAN
Displays a read only field with the name of the port to which the
VLAN is associated.
Use the drop-down menu to select the mode. It can be either:
• Access– This Ethernet interface accepts packets only form
the native VLANs. If this mode is selected, the Allowed
VLANs field is unavailable.
• Trunk–The Ethernet interface allows packets from the given
list of VLANs you can add to the trunk.
Use this field to change the tag assigned to native VLAN.
This section has the following 2 options (and is only available when
Trunk is selected as the Mode):
• No VLANs– Select this option if you do not wish to add any
additional VLANs.
• Selected VLANs– Select this option if you wish to add
additional VLANs.
field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays
> Layer 2 Virtual LANs from the main menu tree.
tab.
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