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Appendix C: Port Based VLAN Setup

VLAN support on the E7 is divided into two types:

• On the Ethernet interfaces G1, G2 and G3, VLANs are created by configuring them normally

in cOS Core. It is cOS Core that then takes on the task of adding and recognizing VLAN tags in

packets. It is not a hardware function.

Setting up these types of VLAN with the E7 is discussed in the separate cOS Core

Administration Guide.

• For the E7 GESW interfaces only (numbered 1 to 8), VLANs are configured in cOS Core in a

different way.

All the GESW interfaces are connected together by a common hardware switch fabric and

this fabric also takes care of managing the packet tagging for any VLANs configured on the

interfaces. This allows the ability to configure Port Based VLANs.

This appendix describes configuring port based VLANs for of the GESW interfaces.

The arrangement of VLANs on the GESW interfaces has the following characteristics:

• Each of the E7 GESW interfaces has the possibility of being a separate VLAN or part of a VLAN

group.

• The E7 GESW interfaces can be grouped together onto VLANs with arbitrary numbers of

physical ports in each VLAN. For example, the interfaces could be divided so that the first 2

interfaces are part of one VLAN, the next 2 interfaces are part of a second VLAN and the

remainder are left in normal operation.

• The GESW interfaces that are not part of a VLAN will continue to operate as a single interface

with the logical interface name GESW.

Configuring VLANs

How to configure port based VLANs will be illustrated with an example. Assume that the

requirement is to divide the GESW interfaces as follows:

• The first interface will continue to operate normally through the switch fabric. This will

therefore be the logical cOS Core interface GESW.

• The GESW interfaces 2, 3 and 4 will become three separate VLANs with the logical names

gesw_port2, gesw_port3 and gesw_port4.

• The remaining four GESW interfaces 5, 6, 7 and 8 will become a single VLAN with the logical

name gesw_port5-8.

To configure these VLANs, perform the following steps in the Web Interface:

1. Define the VLAN objects

In the Web Interface, go to Network > Interfaces and VPN > VLAN > Add and add four new

VLAN objects. Each VLAN should have an arbitrary value assigned for the VLAN ID, IP Address and

Network properties. Only the VLAN ID needs to be unique for the GESW interface. The IP

addresses should not be public IPv4 addresses.

A screenshot of how the resulting VLAN list might look in the Web Interface is shown below.

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