Vlans overview – Allied Telesis AT-2916SX User Manual
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VLANs Overview
VLANs allow you to split your physical LAN into logical subparts, to create
logical segmentation of workgroups, and to enforce security policies
among 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 Allied Telesis Gigabit
Ethernet adapter in your server, depending on the amount of available
memory in your system.
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. The
adapters support multiple VLANs on a per-port or per-team basis, allowing
very flexible network configurations.
Figure 34. Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs with Tagging
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