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What are HP-UX VLANs?
Benefits of HP-UX VLANs
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Benefits of HP-UX VLANs
The advantages of HP-UX VLANs are:
• Physically dispersed workgroups can be logically connected within
the same broadcast domain to appear as if they are on the same
physical LAN.
• A single physical link can simultaneously serve several IP subnets
when subnet-based VLANs are configured on that link.
• Switches no longer need to classify and tag traffic. They focus on
forwarding packets.
• Workgroups requiring increased security can be logically connected
within the same broadcast domain. Broadcast traffic will be isolated
within the secure group.
• End stations using VLANs can offer rudimentary class of service
(CoS) locally by prioritizing traffic for certain activities.
• HP-UX VLANs can be created, modified, and deleted without
rebooting.
• HP-UX VLANs are interoperable with non-VLAN aware devices,
that is, devices such as servers or bridges that do not transmit or
receive tagged packets.