Sun VLAN Technology
VLANs allow you to split your physical LAN into logical subparts, providing an essential tool for increasing the efficiency and flexibility of your network. VLANs are commonly used to separate groups of network users into manageable broadcast domains, to create logical segmentation of workgroups, and to enforce security policies within each logical segment. Each defined VLAN behaves as its own separate network, with its traffic and broadcasts isolated from the others, increasing the bandwidth efficiency within each logical group.
VLAN technology is also useful for containing jumbo frames. If a VLAN is configured with the ability to use jumbo frames, then the fact that the jumbo frame configuration is part of a VLAN ensures ...
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