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TD-W8970 300Mbps Wireless N Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router User Guide 4.5.3 Interface Grouping Choose "Network"Æ"Interface Grouping", you can view all the current groups on this page (shown in Figure 4-15). Figure 4-15 ¾ VLAN: Enable or disable this function. Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a group of devices on one or more LANs that are configured so that they can communicate as if they were attached to the same LAN, when in fact they are located on a number of different LAN segments. Because VLANs are based on logical instead of physical connections, it is very flexible for user/host management, bandwidth allocation and resource optimization. If you want to active this function, this function must be enabled. ) Note: It is not allowed to disable the VLAN with Ethernet Connection enabled. To support this feature, you must create mapping groups with appropriate LAN and WAN interfaces using the Add button. The Remove button will remove the grouping and add the ungrouped interfaces to the Default group. Only the default group has IP interface. Click the Add button. You can add a new interface group in the next screen. For example, you want LAN1 and LAN3 to be a group called Group 1 over br_8_35_0 WAN interface, you can refer to the following figure. Figure 4-16 Click Save to make the entry effective immediately 34

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TD-W8970
300Mbps Wireless N Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router User Guide
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4.5.3 Interface Grouping
Choose “
Network
Æ
Interface
Grouping
”, you can view all the current groups on this page
(shown in Figure 4-15).
Figure 4-15
¾
VLAN:
Enable or disable this function. Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a group of devices on one or
more LANs that are configured so that they can communicate as if they were attached to the
same LAN, when in fact they are located on a number of different LAN segments. Because
VLANs are based on logical instead of physical connections, it is very flexible for user/host
management, bandwidth allocation and resource optimization. If you want to active this
function, this function must be enabled.
)
Note:
It is not allowed to disable the VLAN with Ethernet Connection enabled.
To support this feature, you must create mapping groups with appropriate LAN and WAN
interfaces using the
Add
button. The
Remove
button will remove the grouping and add the
ungrouped interfaces to the Default group. Only the default group has IP interface.
Click the
Add
button. You can add a new interface group in the next screen. For example, you
want LAN1 and LAN3 to be a group called Group 1 over br_8_35_0 WAN interface, you can refer
to the following figure.
Figure 4-16
Click
Save
to make the entry effective immediately