Protected ports vlan guidelines – Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 22: Protected Ports VLANs

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Section III: VLANs

information when you create the VLAN, and having the tables handy will
make the job easier.

Protected Ports

VLAN

Guidelines

Following are some guidelines for implementing protected ports VLANS:

❑ A switch can contain multiple protected ports VLANs.

❑ A protected ports VLAN should contain a minimum of two groups.

A protected ports VLAN of only one group has little value. Create
a port-based or tagged VLAN instead.

❑ A protected ports VLAN can contain any number of groups.

❑ A group can contain any number of ports.

❑ The ports of a group can be tagged or untagged.

❑ Each group must be assigned a unique group number on the

switch. The number can be from 1 to 256.

❑ A protected ports VLAN can contain more than one uplink port.

❑ An uplink port can be either tagged or untagged.

❑ Uplink ports can be shared among more than one protected ports

VLAN, but only if they are tagged.

❑ A switch can contain a combination of port-based and tagged

VLANs and protected ports VLANs.

❑ A port that is a member of a group in a protected ports VLAN

cannot be a member of a port-based or tagged VLAN.

❑ A group can be a member of more than one protected ports VLAN

at a time. However, the port members of the group must be
identical in both VLANs and the ports must be tagged.

❑ You cannot create protected ports VLANs when the switch is

operating in a multiple VLAN mode.

❑ A port that is already an untagged member of a protected ports

VLAN cannot be made an untagged member of another VLAN
until it is first removed from its current VLAN assignment and
returned to the Default_VLAN.

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