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Is VLAN a physical port?
VLANs behave much like physical LANs, but you can group hosts even if they are not physically co-located. A switch port can belong to a VLAN. Unicast, broadcast, and multicast packets are forwarded and flooded out ports in the same VLAN.
What are three types of port designation specific to private VLANs?
The types of domains and ports are:
- Primary VLAN—The primary VLAN of the PVLAN is defined with an 802.1Q tag (VLAN ID) for the complete PVLAN.
- Isolated VLAN/isolated port—A primary VLAN can contain only one isolated VLAN.
- Community VLAN/community port—You can configure multiple community VLANs within a single PVLAN.
What is the use of private VLAN?
Private VLANs in hosting operation allows segregation between customers with the following benefits: No need for separate IP subnet for each customer. Using Isolated VLAN, there is no limit on the number of customers. No need to change firewall’s interface configuration to extend the number of configured VLANs.
How to configure VLAN tagging on distributed port group?
You can set multiple ranges and individual VLANs by using a comma-separated list. For example: 1702-1705, 1848-1849. Use this option for Virtual Guest Tagging. Associate the traffic with a private VLAN created on the distributed switch. Review your settings and apply the configuration.
How to tag VLAN traffic with an ID?
From the VLAN type drop-down menu, select the type of VLAN traffic filtering and marking, and click Next. Do not use VLAN. Use this option in case of External Switch Tagging. Tag traffic with the ID from the VLAN ID field. Type a number between 1 and 4094 for Virtual Switch Tagging.
Do you need physical ports for each VLAN?
If you firewall is only good for a several hundred megabits of throughput, then I would trunk all 6 vlans on one interface with 802.1q tagging to the firewall. (You mention you want physical ports, not just vlan tagging, but technically there is no security difference between the two, and physical ports is just wasteful.)
Do you have to tag all VLANs in 802.1Q?
If both sides support 802.1Q VLAN tagging you can set up a single VLAN trunk (or aggregated ports) for all VLANs. One of the VLANs may be untagged (sometimes called the native VLAN), all the others must be tagged on both side in the same manner.