July 2004
Beginner
408 pages
7h 31m
English
What You Will Learn
On completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Describe a virtual LAN
List three VLAN types
Describe communications within and between VLANs
List three VLAN modes
List the Layer 3 switches in VLANs
Explain the benefits of using VLANs
This chapter takes the concept of a physical local-area network (LAN), throws it against the wall, picks up the pieces, and reassembles them. The LANs thus far discussed have all been based on physical topology and single broadcast domains with no segmentation—where there is cabling, there is a broadcast domain.
But that is all about to change. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck, right? Looks like it in Figure 8-1.
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