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Presented by Varsha Honde

The document discusses VLANs, which logically group network users and resources connected to switch ports. VLANs simplify management, provide security over flat networks, and offer flexibility and scalability by creating broadcast domains and allowing users to be added to VLANs regardless of physical location. The document also covers VLAN memberships, identifying VLANs, the VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) for managing VLANs across switches, VTP modes of operation, and configuring VLANs.

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Presented by Varsha Honde

The document discusses VLANs, which logically group network users and resources connected to switch ports. VLANs simplify management, provide security over flat networks, and offer flexibility and scalability by creating broadcast domains and allowing users to be added to VLANs regardless of physical location. The document also covers VLAN memberships, identifying VLANs, the VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) for managing VLANs across switches, VTP modes of operation, and configuring VLANs.

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VLAN

Presented By
Varsha Honde
Virtual LANs (VLANs)
• Definition: A logical grouping of network users and
resources connected to administratively defined ports
on a switch.
– Smaller broadcast domains
– Organized by:
• Location
• Function
• Department
• Application or protocol
Switches
Features of VLANs
• Simplify network management
• Provides a level of security over a
flat network
• Flexibility and Scalability
Flat Network Structure
Security
• Flat network problems

• VLANs
Flexibility & Scalability
• Layer-2 switches only read frames
• Can cause a switch to forward all broadcasts
• VLANs
• Essentially create broadcast domains
• Greatly reduces broadcast traffic
• Ability to add wanted users to a VLAN
regardless of their physical location
• Additional VLANs can be created when
network growth consumes more bandwidth
VLANs Remove The Physical
Boundary
VLAN Memberships
• Static VLANs
• Typical method of creating VLANs
• Most secure
• A switch port assigned to a VLAN always maintains that
assignment until changed
• Dynamic VLANs
• Node assignment to a VLAN is automatic
• MAC addresses, protocols, network addresses, etc
• VLAN Management Policy Server (VMPS)
• MAC address database for dynamic assignments
• MAC-address to VLAN mapping
Identifying VLANs
Identifying VLANs (cont.)
VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP)
• Purpose: to manage all configured
VLANs across a switch internetwork
& maintain consistency
- Allows an administrator to add,
delete, & rename VLANs
VTP Benefits
• Benefits
• Consistent configuration
• Permits trunking over mixed networks
• Accurate tracking
• Dynamic reporting
• Plug-and-Play
• A VTP server must be created to manage
VLANs
VTP Modes
VTP Modes of Operation
• Server
– Default for all Catalyst switches
– Minimum one server for a VTP domain
• Client
– Receives information + sends/receives updates
– Cannot make any changes
• Transparent
– Does not participate in a VTP domain but forwards
VTP advertisements
– Can add/delete VLANs
– Locally significant
Configuring VLANs
• Creating VLANs
• Assigning Switch Ports to VLANs
• Configuring Trunk Ports
• Configuring Inter-VLAN routing

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