Configuring VLANs using Device Manager

The following sections detail how to create and manage a VLAN using the Device Manager (DM). VLAN creation and management is performed in the VLANs dialog box.

The VLAN Basic tab fields are described in the following table.

VLAN Basic tab

Field Description
Id The VLAN ID for the VLAN.
Name Name of the VLAN.
Ifindex Displays port numbers.
Color An administratively assigned color code for the VLAN. The value of this object is used by the VLAN Manager GUI tool to select a color when it draws this VLAN on the screen.
Type Indicates the type of VLAN: byPort or byProtocolId.
PortMembers Ports that are members of the VLAN.
ActiveMembers Set of ports that are currently active in the VLAN. Active ports include all static ports and any dynamic ports where the VLAN policy was met.
StgId Identifies the spanning tree group to which the VLAN belongs. This field is only available when the switch is running in Nortel STPG mode.
MstpInstance This field is only available when the switch is running in MSTP mode.
ProtocolId Protocol for protocol-based VLANs. This value is taken from the Assigned Numbers RFC. For port-based VLANs, None is the displayed value.
UserDefinedPid When rcVlanProtocolId is set to usrDefined(15) in a protocol-based VLAN, this field represents the 16-bit user-defined protocol identifier.
Encap The type of encapsulation. Options are ethernet2 and llc.
MacAddress The unique hardware address of the device.
Routing Specifies whether routing is enabled (true) or disabled (false) on the VLAN.

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