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4 – EVIC Configuration and Monitoring Features
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NOTE:When using tagged VLANs for Ethernet ports, the MTU size should be
changed to 1504 since a VLAN tag adds 4 bytes to the message size of a packet.
For more information on setting MTU size, please refer to the section “Configure
MTU Size” on page 4-13.
Figure 4-25. VLAN Configuration
1. From Menu, select Configuration.
2. Select VLAN Configuration. The VLAN Configuration window is displayed.
NOTE:If the user is configuring VLAN tagging on Ethernet ports only (and not
on any host ports), all default values for PortType=Host are acceptable.
4.3.5.1
Port Type: Ethernet
Figure 4-26. VLAN Configuration Window: Ethernet Ports
Following is a high-level description for each field in the window:
Port Type
A user can select between "Ethernet" and "Host". If set to Ethernet, all fields
on the screen are relative to the two external Ethernet ports of the EVIC.
Ext
Specifies the external Ethernet port number.
Alias
Alias is the user assigned name for the external port.
PVID
The Primary VLAN ID (PVID) of a port. For any incoming frame(s) without a
VLAN tag, or with a VLAN ID of 0 this column specifies which VLAN the
incoming frame(s) will be associated with. By default, untagged packets or
those with a VLAN ID of 0 (also known as priority tagged frames) are assigned