Installation guide

VLAN

Overview

Allied Telesyn’s ATMUX protocol driver allows you to configure virtual

LANS (VLANS) for the AT-2450FTX, AT-2451 Series, AT-2700/AT-2701

Series, AT-2745/AT-2746 Series, AT-2915, and AT-2930 Network

Adapters. Allied Telesyn’s ATMUX driver is based upon the 802.1Q

standard, a special 4-byte tag inserted into every Ethernet frame.

Note

ATMUX does not currently support the AT-2801, AT-2916T, AT-2970,

and AT-2971 Series Adapters.

With VLANs you can logically group end-nodes that consist of clients

and servers that reside in a common broadcast domain without any

router hops. The benefit of this is an isolated broadcast domain with no

physical limitations within your switch fabric.

This can be a great benefit as employees move, business restructure, and

technologies merge. By offering a flexible structure VLANS can reduce

performance bottlenecks that occur when traditional routers cannot

meet fast growing demand.

Note

Before installing the VLAN protocol driver the latest driver Windows

2000/XP Ndis 5 driver (version 4.1.10) must be installed in the

operating system.

To properly configure the ATMUX VLAN protocol driver, the VLAN ID and

IP Subnet that the network adapter card will be participating in are

required. The system administrator should be able to provide the

configuration details.