Advantech EKI-7758F User Manual

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3.2.3 Protocol 
 
VLAN configuration 
 
A Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a logical network grouping that limits the broadcast domain, which would allow 
you to isolate network traffic, so only the members of the VLAN will receive traffic from the same 
members of VLAN. Basically, creating a VLAN from a switch is logically equivalent of reconnecting a 
group of network devices to another Layer 2 switch. However, all the network devices are still plugged 
into the same switch physically. 
 
The industrial switch supports port-based and 802.1Q (tagged-based) VLAN. The default configuration of 
VLAN operation mode is “Disable”. 
 
 
Figure 3.30: VLAN Configuration 
 
 
 
VLAN configuration - Port-based VLAN 
 
Packets can go among only members of the same VLAN group. Note all unselected ports are treated as 
belonging to another single VLAN. If the port-based VLAN enabled, the VLAN-tagging is ignored. 
 
In order for an end station to send packets to different VLAN groups, it itself has to be either capable of 
tagging packets it sends with VLAN tags or attached to a VLAN-aware bridge that is capable of 
classifying and tagging the packet with different VLAN ID based on not only default PVID but also other 
information about the packet, such as the protocol.