How to set up a VLAN

The acronym VLAN stands for Virtual Local Area Network. This is said to function in subgroups in an already setup LAN (Local Area Network).

The VLAN is said to combine user stations and network devices into one unit.

The physical LAN segment in which these subgroups are attached plays a role in all of this but does not necessarily interfere with the type of VLAN one might be trying to set up.
The purpose of a VLAN is to allow network traffic to flow more efficiently within its subgroups.

Instructions

1. Firstly to get into the VLAN setup, you will need to use the Smart Wizard or access this or go the alternate route and go thru the URL http://<<switchaddress>>
2. You will then go to Switch, Click VLAN and then select properties.
3. Click on Add
4. Now you will proceed to setting up the VLAN ID and VLAN name.
5. Now click Apply.

Assigning Ports to a VLAN

6. Go to VLAN and then click on Membership.
7. Within the VLAN ID list, you are going to select the VLAN you wish to add the ports to. Bear in mind that by default all ports you may see are members of VLAN1, and VLAN1 cannot be modified.Each port as a current and static box associated with to
8. You will now click on the static box that is associated wit the desired port until you see a U symbol, U standing for Untagged.
9. The previous step is to be repeated for all the required ports that you want to be members of the VLAN.
10. Once completed click apply.
11. Now search through the Interface PVID settings and set the PVID of each port you have selected for the new VLAN to the VLAN ID. For instance the PVID for VLAN2 would 2 and so forth.
12. Once completed click apply to finalize these settings.
    

    Verifying the VLAN

13. In order to verify if the setup VLAN is working efficiently, you are now going to need to configure two PCs, with their unique IP address, preferably in the same range and with the same subnet mask.
14. You are to now patch each PC to one of the ports that is a member of the specific VLAN that you just configured and wish to test
15. You should be able to ping each machine using the other.
16. Now you are going to continue by re-patching one of the machines to a next port but this time one that is assigned to a different VLAN.
17. Try pinging to the other machine and vice versa. You SHOULD NOT be able to ping that machine from the other machine.