COMPUTER NETWORK

Assignment no. 3

Submitted by: Chandan kumar

1606958
D3/ECE/A1

Submitted to: Prof. HARMINDER KAUR

 COMPUTER NETWORK
Assignment no. 3

Submitted by: Nitish kumar

1607000
D3/ECE/A2

Submitted to: Prof. HARMINDER KAUR

 VIRTUAL LAN
What is purpose of VLAN?
Network devices such as switches, hubs, bridges, workstations and servers connected to each
other in the same network at a specific location are generally known as LANs. A LAN is also
considered a broadcast domain. A VLAN allows several networks to work virtually as one
LAN

Why do we use VLANs?

Because VLANs are based on logical instead of physical connections, they are extremely
flexible. ... Traffic cannot pass directly to another VLAN (between broadcast domains) within
the switch or between two switches. To interconnect two different VLANs, you must use
routers or Layer 3 switches.

How does virtual LAN work?

Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) separate an existing physical network into multiple
logical networks. Thus, each VLAN creates its own broadcast domain. Communication
between two VLANs can only occur through a router that is connected to both. VLANs work
as though they are created using independent switches.

What is VLAN example?

A virtual LAN (VLAN) is a broadcast domain created by switches. VLANs are a convenient
way to connect ports from different switches and different buildings onto the same network and
broadcast domain, preventing the need for a complex system of subnets.

What are the advantages of VLAN?

Advantages of VLANs. VLANs provide a number of advantages, such as ease of
administration, confinement of broadcast domains, reduced broadcast traffic, and enforcement
of security policies. VLANs provide the following advantages: VLANs enable logical grouping
of end-stations that are physically dispersed on a network.

Different types of VLANs exist on campus enviroments and here they are
Default VLAN: This is basically where ALL ports belongs to by default, this is tecnically
VLAN 1 and it can't be deleted from the switch. On some (old )Catalyst switches you can't
even disallow VLAN 1 from trunk ports.
Data VLAN: This is the "normal" VLAN where the traffic is carried and where the client data
goes through the LAN.
Native VLAN: The native VLAN is an 802.1Q only concept. Traffic belonging to the native
VLAN is not tagged. Note that by default VLAN 1 (which is the default VLAN) is the native
VLAN on ALL Catalyst switches. You can designate any VLAN as your native on your
switch and note that it need to match on both ends of the trunk connection.

Voice VLAN: The voice VLAN is where the QoS policies are applied in order to prioritize this
traffic to send it through the LAN. The voice traffic it's always distinguished from the data
traffic on the LAN.

Management VLAN: This is used on a LAN for management purporses. Example of this
would be to use it on a Out-of-Band (OOB) implementations. This VLAN normally carries
sensitive traffic from a control perspective; some of the protocols that are carried on this
VLAN are: FTP, TFTP, Telnet, SSH, SCP, and others.

Special VLANs: These VLANs are basically used for special cases on your LAN. An example
of a special case VLAN would be VLAN 0, which is used in conjunction with 802.1p. I would
say that VLAN 1 fits in this "special" category too.

Reserved VLANs: There are some VLANs that are reserved internally on your switch in order
to use them on other enviroments like FDDI, Token Ring. The specific VLANs used for these
two types of networks are from 1002 - 1005.
Private VLANs it's a technology that has some new concpets/category of VLANs, but
these are not a CCNA R&S related topic.