In this chapter, you’ll apprentice the commands on how to create
VLANs, put ports into VLANs, configure trunks and trunking
protocols, configure VTP and all its options, configure inter-
VLAN routing, and attending at VLAN analysis information.
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Understanding VLAN Basics
Here’s a abbreviate account of means that configuring VLANs can advice abridge arrangement management:
Network adds, moves, and changes are accomplished with affluence by aloof configuring a anchorage into
the adapted VLAN.
A accumulation of users that needs an almighty aerial akin of aegis can be put into their own
VLAN so that users alfresco the VLAN can’t acquaint with them.
As a analytic alignment of users by function, VLANs can be advised absolute from
their concrete or geographic locations.
VLANs abundantly enhance arrangement security.
VLANs access the cardinal of advertisement domains while abbreviating their size.