Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

Understanding Mobile Port Properties

Assigning Ports to VLANs

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OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide

Mobile port properties indicate mobile port status and affect port behavior when the port is dynamically 
assigned to one or more VLANs. For example, mobile port properties determine the following:

• Should the configured default VLAN forward or discard port traffic that does not match any VLAN 

rule criteria.

• Should the port retain or drop a dynamic VPA when traffic that triggered the assignment stops and the 

source MAC address learned on the port for that VLAN is aged out. (See 

 for more information about the aging of MAC addresses.)

• Will the mobile port participate in Layer 2 authentication that provides a login process at the VLAN 

and/or port level. (See 

 for more information.).

This section contains procedures for using the following commands to configure mobile port properties. 
For more details about the syntax of commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.

Use the 

 command to view the current status of these properties for one or more 

mobile ports. See 

 for more 

information.

To enable or disable forwarding of mobile port traffic that does not match any VLAN rules on the port’s 
configured default VLAN, enter vlan port followed by the port’s slot/port designation then default vlan 
followed by enable or disable. For example,

-> vlan port 3/1 default vlan enable

-> vlan port 5/2 default vlan disable

To enable or disable the configured default VLAN on multiple ports, specify a range of ports and/or multi-
ple slots.

-> vlan port 2/1-12 3/10-24 4/3-14 default vlan enable

Note. It is recommended that mobile ports with their default VLAN disabled should not share a VLAN 
with any other types of ports (e.g., mobile ports with default VLAN enabled or non-mobile, fixed ports).

 for an overview and illustrations of how this 

property affects mobile port behavior.

Enables or disables forwarding of mobile port traffic on the port’s con-
figured default VLAN that does not match any existing VLAN rules. 

Enables or disables the retention of VLAN port assignments when 
mobile port traffic ages out.

Enables or disables authentication on a mobile port.

Enables or disables 802.1X port-based access control on a mobile port.