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Configuring Private VLANs
This chapter describes how to configure private VLANs on the switch. Unless otherwise noted, the term
switch refers to a standalone switch and to a switch stack.
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, see the command
reference for this release.
The chapter consists of these sections:
• Understanding Private VLANs, page 16-1
• Configuring Private VLANs, page 16-6
• Monitoring Private VLANs, page 16-15
Note When you configure private VLANs, the switch must be in VTP transparent mode. See Chapter 14,
“Configuring VTP.”
Understanding Private VLANs
The private-VLAN feature addresses two problems that service providers face when using VLANs:
• Scalability: The switch supports up to 1005 active VLANs. If a service provider assigns one VLAN
per customer, this limits the numbers of customers the service provider can support.
• To enable IP routing, each VLAN is assigned a subnet address space or a block of addresses, which
can result in wasting the unused IP addresses, and cause IP address management problems.
Using private VLANs addresses the scalability problem and provides IP address management benefits
for service providers and Layer 2 security for customers. Private VLANs partition a regular VLAN
domain into subdomains. A subdomain is represented by a pair of VLANs: a primary VLAN and a
secondary VLAN. A private VLAN can have multiple VLAN pairs, one pair for each subdomain. All
VLAN pairs in a private VLAN share the same primary VLAN. The secondary VLAN ID differentiates
one subdomain from another. See
Figure 16-1 .