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Virtual LANs: Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX User Guide
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Back to Contents Page Virtual LANs: Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX User Guide VLAN Overview Adding VLANs to Teams VLAN Overview Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow you to split your physical LAN into logical parts, to create logical segmentation of workgroups, and to enforce security policies for each logical segment. Each defined VLAN behaves as its own separate network with its traffic and broadcasts isolated from the others, increasing bandwidth efficiency within each logical group. Up to 64 VLANs (63 tagged and 1 untagged) can be defined for each Broadcom adapter on your server, depending on the amount of memory available in your system. VLANs can be added to a team to allow multiple VLANs with different VLAN IDs. A virtual adapter is created for each VLAN added. Although VLANs are commonly used to create individual broadcast domains and/or separate IP subnets, it is sometimes useful for a server to have a presence on more than one VLAN simultaneously. Broadcom adapters support multiple VLANs on a per-port or per-team basis, allowing very flexible network configurations. Figure 1: Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs with Tagging Figure 1 shows an example network that uses VLANs. In this example network, the physical LAN consists of a switch, two servers, and five clients. The LAN is logically organized into three different VLANs, each representing a different IP subnet. The features of this network are described in Table 1: Table 1: Example VLAN Network Topology Component Description VLAN #1 An IP subnet consisting of the Main Server, PC #3, and PC #5. This subnet represents an engineering group. VLAN #2 Includes the Main Server, PCs #1 and #2 via shared media segment, and PC #5. This VLAN is a software development group. VLAN #3 Includes the Main Server, the Accounting Server and PC #4. This VLAN is an accounting group. A high-use server that needs to be accessed from all VLANs and IP subnets. The Main Server has a Broadcom adapter installed. All three IP subnets are accessed via the single physical adapter interface. The server is Main Server attached to one of the switch ports, which is configured for VLANs #1, #2, and #3. Both the adapter and the connected switch port have tagging turned on. Because of the tagging VLAN capabilities of both devices, the server is able to communicate on all three IP subnets in this network, but continues to maintain broadcast