Avaya C360 - Manual (Page 120)

Avaya C360 Layer 2 Features
120 Installation and Configuration Guide Avaya C360 Multilayer Stackable Switches, version 4.5
multi-tenant networks, where each user has his a VLAN for privacy, but the whole building has a
shared high-speed connection to the ISP.
In order to accomplish this, C360 allows you to set multiple VLANs per port. The three available
Port Multi-VLAN binding modes are:
● Bind to All - the port is programmed to support the entire 3K VLANs range. Traffic from any
VLAN is forwarded through a port defined as "Bind to All". This is intended mainly for easy
backbone link configuration
● Bind to Configured - the port supports all the VLANs configured in the switch/stack. These
may be either Port VLAN IDs (PVID) or VLANs that were manually added to the switch.
● Statically Bound - the port supports VLANs manually configured on it.
Tip:
Tip:
VLAN Binding - The forwarding mechanism of the C360 switches is based on
frame's VLAN and MAC address. If a frame is destined to a known MAC address
but arrives on a different VLAN than the VLAN on which this MAC address was
learnt, this frame will be flooded as unknown to all ports that are bound to its
VLAN. Hence, VLAN binding should be executed with care, especially on ports
connected to workstations or servers.
Figure 23 illustrates these binding modes in C360.