DELL S6000-ON User Manual

NOTE: When a hybrid port is untagged in a VLAN but it receives tagged traffic, all traffic is accepted.

NOTE: You cannot configure an existing switchport or port channel interface for Native VLAN.
Interfaces must have no other Layer 2 or Layer 3 configurations when using the portmode hybrid

command or a message similar to this displays: % Error: Port is in Layer-2 mode Gi
5/6.

To configure a port so that it can be a member of an untagged and tagged VLANs, use the following
commands.

Remove any Layer 2 or Layer 3 configurations from the interface.
INTERFACE mode

2. Configure the interface for Hybrid mode.

INTERFACE mode

portmode hybrid

3. Configure the interface for Switchport mode.

INTERFACE mode

switchport

4. Add the interface to a tagged or untagged VLAN.

VLAN INTERFACE mode

[tagged | untagged]

Enabling Null VLAN as the Default VLAN

In a Carrier Ethernet for Metro Service environment, service providers who perform frequent

reconfigurations for customers with changing requirements occasionally enable multiple interfaces, each

connected to a different customer, before the interfaces are fully configured.

This presents a vulnerability because both interfaces are initially placed in the native VLAN, VLAN 1, and

for that period customers are able to access each other's networks. Dell Networking OS has a Null VLAN

to eliminate this vulnerability. When you enable the Null VLAN, all ports are placed into it by default, so

even if you activate the physical ports of multiple customers, no traffic is allowed to traverse the links

until each port is place in another VLAN.
To enable Null VLAN, use the following command.

• Disable the default VLAN, so that all ports belong to the Null VLAN until configured as a member of

another VLAN.
CONFIGURATION mode

default-vlan disable

Default: the default VLAN is enabled (no default-vlan disable).

Virtual LANs (VLANs)

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