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resources of another on the same LAN, thus a user will not see the printers and hard disks of
another user on the same network.
VLAN also increases network performance by limiting broadcasts to a smaller and more
manageable logical broadcast domain. In traditional switched environments, all broadcast packets
go to each and every individual port. With VLAN, all broadcasts are confined to a specific broadcast
domain.
Note: VLAN is unidirectional; it only governs outgoing traffic.
See
for information on port-based and 802.1Q tagged VLANs.
6.4 Switch Setup
Click Basic Setting > Switch Setup in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown. The
VLAN setup screens change depending on whether you choose
802.1Q
or
Port Based
in the VLAN
Type field in this screen. Refer to the chapter on VLAN.
Figure 24
Basic Setting > Switch Setup
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 11
Basic Setting > Switch Setup
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
VLAN Type
Choose 802.1Q or Port Based. The VLAN Setup screen changes depending on whether
you choose 802.1Q VLAN type or Port Based VLAN type in this screen. See
Bridge Control
Protocol
Transparency
Select Active to allow the Switch to handle bridging control protocols (STP, for example).
You also need to define how to treat a BPDU in the Port Setup screen.