Allowing inter-vlan communication – Lucent Technologies Cajun M770 User Manual

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Chapter 9

VLANs

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Cajun M770 Manager User’s Guide

Allowing Inter-VLAN Communication

Individual switch ports may be given the status of “Global Port”. Global ports can
communicate with all VLANs. This feature has many uses:

Executives or administrators in a company can give their switch ports Global
port status so they can access all VLANs.

A server attached to a Global port can serve many VLANs.

Indirect communication between VLANs can be arranged. Via a server attached
to the Global port, packets (mail, for example) may be transferred to any VLAN.

To give the status of Global Port to a switch port:
1

From the Chassis View, open the Configuration menu and select Virtual LANs.

2

Arrange the windows so you can see the Virtual LANs for Device dialog box
and the Chassis View at the same time.

3

From the Virtual LANs list, select Global (# 255).

4

In the Chassis View, select the switch port you want to set to Global Port status
(use CTRL-click to select multiple switch ports).

5

Click Add Zoom Sel. The selected switch parts are assigned to Global and
automatically deleted from any other VLAN.

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