Quick Reference Guide

GS108T and GS110TP Smart Switch Software Administration Manual
3-10 Configuring Switching Information
v1.0, April 2010
To configure LACP port priority settings:
1. Select the check box next to the port to configure. You can select multiple ports to apply the
same setting to all selected ports.
2. Configure the LACP Priority value for the selected port. The field range is 0–255. The
default value is 128.
3. Configure the administrative LACP Timeout value.
• Long. Specifies a long timeout value.
• Short. Specifies a short timeout value.
4. Click Cancel to cancel the configuration on the screen and reset the data on the screen to the
latest value of the switch.
5. If you make any changes to this page, click Apply to send the updated configuration to the
switch. Configuration changes take effect immediately.
VLANs
Adding Virtual LAN (VLAN) support to a Layer 2 switch offers some of the benefits of both
bridging and routing. Like a bridge, a VLAN switch forwards traffic based on the Layer 2 header,
which is fast, and like a router, it partitions the network into logical segments, which provides
better administration, security and management of multicast traffic.
By default, all ports on the switch are in the same broadcast domain. VLANs electronically
separate ports on the same switch into separate broadcast domains so that broadcast packets are not
sent to all the ports on a single switch. When you use a VLAN, users can be grouped by logical
function instead of physical location.
Each VLAN in a network has an associated VLAN ID, which appears in the IEEE 802.1Q tag in
the Layer 2 header of packets transmitted on a VLAN. An end station may omit the tag, or the
VLAN portion of the tag, in which case the first switch port to receive the packet may either reject
it or insert a tag using its default VLAN ID. A given port may handle traffic for more than one
VLAN, but it can only support one default VLAN ID.
Note: You cannot select ports that are not participating in a LAG.