Dell PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

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Guide\Plasma_UGSwitching_VLAN.fm

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Trunk Ports

Ports set to Trunk mode may belong to multiple VLANs. The default

VLAN membership of a trunk port is all VLANs (1-4094). A PVID must be

set on the port (it can be a non-existing VLAN). Trunk ports accept tagged

and untagged frames. Untagged frames will be classified to the VLAN

whose VLAN ID (VID) is configured as the port’s PVID.
Frames, sent from the port in the VLAN, whose VID is the current PVID,

are sent untagged. Frames sent in all other VLANs active on the port are

sent tagged.
Ingress filtering is always enabled on Trunk-mode ports. Incoming frames

will undergo ingress filtering, and if correctly tagged, (tagged with a VID of

one of the VLANs to which the port currently belongs) are admitted.
The default PVID is 1 (the default VLAN). If another VID is configured as

the port’s PVID, and the corresponding VLAN is deleted from the port or

from the system, the port’s PVID reverts to 1, meaning that the port is

made a member of the default VLAN.
Setting a trunk-port’s PVID to 4095 limits traffic to tagged frames.

Incoming untagged frames are silently discarded, and no frames are sent

untagged.
Trunk-mode ports are intended for switch-to-switch links, where traffic is

usually tagged.

• General Ports

Ports set to General mode may be members of multiple VLANs. Each of

these VLANs may be configured to be tagged or untagged. This setting

applies to transmitted frames. Incoming untagged frames are classified

into the VLAN whose VID is the currently configured PVID.
Ingress filtering may be disabled on General ports. Ingress filtering is

enabled by default.

• Promiscuous Ports

A promiscuous port can communicate with all ports of the same Private

VLAN (PVLAN), including the isolated ports of the same PVLAN.

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