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Posted by on March 30, 2008, 3:04 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > I think you need to take a step back.
>
> There are port based VLANs in which you specify the switch ports to
> associate with a given VLAN. Devices connected to those ports will be in
> a common VLAN (provided they don't fail to meet other criteria like
> Cisco's Port Security).
>
> There are MAC address based VLAN's (less common) where you associate the
> MAC addresses of hosts with the VLAN. The point being the host could be
> moved to a different port, and still access the VLAN to which its MAC
> address is associated.
>
> VLANs are configured in different networks or subnets. Routing is
> required for devices in one VLAN to communicate with devices in another
> VLAN.
>
> Your notion of IP addresses being "assigned" to VLANs instead of ports
> is off base.
>
> ARP is used to resolve a hosts IP address into its corresponding MAC
> address.
>
> Best Regards,
> News Reader
>
> rohit231...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Thanks Patrick also I have seen that the IP addresses are also
> > assigned to VLANs instead of ports.........so would I be correct in
> > saying that in case of an ARP request the connected device would in
> > exchange for a IP address of a VLAN would get a MAC address of a
> > VLAN??
>
> > Patrick Schaaf wrote:
>
> >> rohit231...@gmail.com writes:
>
> >>> I am working as a protocol / feature developer in L2 / L3
> >>> layers........I have come across equipments ( L3 switches) that have
> >>> the facility of giving a MAC address to a VLAN. I would like to know
> >>> what is the use of assigning a MAC address to a VLAN???
> >> The connected device can move between ports without configuration change.
>
> >> best regards
> >> Patrick
Yes you're right.........ARP is only for hosts and not for networks or
in this case Virtual Networks i.e. VLANs....please kindly go a step
further and explain then why are IP addresses assigned to VLANs and
not to ports
Thanks
Rohit
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