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References
D. Passmore, and J. Freeman, The Virtual LAN Technology Report, http://www.3com.com/nsc/200374.html, March, 1997 IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Virtual Bridge Local Area Networks, 1998 Meng Guo , Subrata Mazumdar , Discovery of Spanning Trees in Virtual Bridged LAN , The Quarterly Newsletter of SNMP Technology, Comment, and Events, Volume 9, Number 1, December, 2001
Outline
General Concepts of VLAN
What is VLAN ? Why use VLAN's? Different way to assign VLAN Membership. Spanning Tree in VLAN Frame processing and 802.1Q standard Different kind of logical VLAN architecture
What is VLAN ?
vendor-specific solution and strategy, so defining it is an issue. VLAN's allow a network manager to logically segment a LAN into different broadcast domains. multiple physical LAN segments independent of physical location and can communicate as if they were on a common LAN
VLAN Membership
Membership by Port Membership by MAC Address Membership by IP Subnet Address
port 1 2 3 4 vlan 1 1 2 1
disadvantage of this method is that it does not allow for user mobility.
VLAN Membership
Membership by Port Membership by MAC Address Membership by IP Subnet Address
MAC Address 1212354145121 2389234873743 3045834758445 5483573475843 vlan 1 1 2 1
Advantage : no reconfiguration needed Disadvantage : VLAN membership must be assigned initially. performance degradation as members of different VLANs coexist on a single switch port
VLAN Membership
Membership by Port Membership by MAC Address Membership by IP Subnet Address
IP Subnet 23.2.24 26.21.35 vlan 1 2
Advantage: Good for application-based VLAN strategy User can move workstations eliminate the need for frame tagging Disadvantage : Performance/ looking for L3 address in packet. Less effective with protocols such as IPX, DECnet, or AppleTalk unroutable protocols such as NetBIOS
Filtering Database
Membership information for a VLAN is stored in a filtering database
Static Entries
Static Filtering Entries: for every port whether frames to be sent to a specific MAC address or group address and on a specific VLAN should be forwarded or discarded, or follow dynamic entry Static Registration Entries: whether frames to be sent to a specific VLAN are to be tagged or untagged and which ports are registered for that VLAN
Tagging [802.1Q]
Ethernet Frame Tag Header: Token Ring and Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) tag header: TCI
MIB Information
MIB used RFC1213-MIB BRIDGE-MIB (RFC 1493) Q-BRIDGE-MIB (RFC 2674). Bridge MIB Used dot1dStpPort dot1qPvid dot1dStpPortState dot1dStpPortDesignatedRoot dot1dStpPortDesignatedBridge dot1dStpPortDesignatedPort
Implementation Detail
1 They have used Avaya's Cajun switches, and the STP is stored in PROMINET-MIB 2 Collecting Spanning Tree Related Information
Implementation Detail
3 4 Construction of Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Spanning Tree of VLAN 12