Posts Tagged ‘vlan’

VLAN in windows hyper-v

November 26th, 2013 Comments off

Briefly, a virtual LAN (VLAN) can be regarded as a broadcast domain. It operates on the OSI
network layer 2. The exact protocol definition is known as 802.1Q. Each network packet belong-
ing to a VLAN has an identifier. This is just a number between 0 and 4095, with both 0 and 4095
reserved for other uses. Let’s assume a VLAN with an identifier of 10. A NIC configured with
the VLAN ID of 10 will pick up network packets with the same ID and will ignore all other IDs.
The point of VLANs is that switches and routers enabled for 802.1Q can present VLANs to dif-
ferent switch ports in the network. In other words, where a normal IP subnet is limited to a set
of ports on a physical switch, a subnet defined in a VLAN can be present on any switch port—if
so configured, of course.

Getting back to the VLAN functionality in Hyper-V: both virtual switches and virtual NICs
can detect and use VLAN IDs. Both can accept and reject network packets based on VLAN ID,
which means that the VM does not have to do it itself. The use of VLAN enables Hyper-V to
participate in more advanced network designs. One limitation in the current implementation is
that a virtual switch can have just one VLAN ID, although that should not matter too much in
practice. The default setting is to accept all VLAN IDs.

vlan configuration on cisco switch Catalyst 6500 Series

August 9th, 2012 Comments off

Firstly, have a read of vlan wiki page(benefits compared to physical lan, cisco VTP):

Then, have a read of the following about configuration of vlan on cisco switch Catalyst 6500 Series(vlan ranges, vlan translation):