Dell PowerConnect 7048P User Manual - Page 615

VLAN Configuration Examples This section contains the following examples: • Configuring VLANs Using Dell OpenManage Administrator • Configuring VLANs Using the CLI • Configuring a Voice VLAN A network administrator wants to create the VLANs in Table 21-6: Table 21-6. Example VLANs VLAN VLAN Name VLAN Type Purpose ID 100 Engineering Port-based All employees in the Engineering department use this VLAN. Confining this department's traffic to a single VLAN helps reduce the amount of traffic in the broadcast domain, which increases bandwidth. 200 Marketing Port-based All employees in the Marketing department use this VLAN. 300 Sales MAC-based The sales staff works remotely but occasionally comes to the office. Since these employees do not have assigned work areas, they typically plug their laptops into a network port in an available cubicle, office, or conference room. 400 Payroll Port-based The payroll department has sensitive traffic and needs its own VLAN to help keep that traffic private. Figure 21-25 shows the network topology for this example. As the figure shows, there are two switches, two file servers, and many hosts. One switch has an uplink port that connects it to a layer 3 device and the rest of the corporate network. Configuring VLANs 615