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Creating a VLAN, CAUTION
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34 CHAPTER 4: CONFIGURING THE SWITCH Communication between different VLANs can only take place if they are all connected to a router or layer 3 switch. Creating a VLAN Use the VLANs page to create VLANs on the Switch. To propagate information about VLAN groups used on this Switch to external devices, you must specify a VLAN ID for each VLAN. Figure 14 VLANs Screen choose to connect all ports to VLANs other than VLAN 1, you will no longer be able to access the Web interface. If this happens, you will need to reset the Switch to factory settings. To create a VLAN: 1 On the menu, click VLANs. The VLANs screen appears. 2 In VLAN ID, click Create New VLAN. 3 In VLAN ID (1-4904), type an unused ID number for the VLAN that you are creating. VLAN IDs range from 1 to 4904. Figure 15 Create VLANs Screen Ports belonging to a VLAN must be set to either U (uplink) or D (desktop). Desktop VLAN ports can only be members of one VLAN at any time. Setting a port as an uplink (tagged) VLAN port forwards all VLAN traffic from the other ports on the Switch to this port. Use the uplink port function to connect the Switch to the backbone of the network. Traffic from all the VLANs on the switch is automatically forwarded to the uplink port or ports. By default, all ports belong to VLAN 1. CAUTION: At least one port must always be a member of VLAN 1 (the management VLAN). If you 4 Define the VLAN membership by setting the state of each port. To change states, click the icon under the port number repeatedly to cycle through the different states. Available states include: ■ N - Not a member ■ U - Uplink egress packets ■ D - Desktop egress packets 5 Click Apply to create the VLAN.