What is the vlan ? how it is work?

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swatkat

  • May 29th, 2006
 

vlan-virtual lan

ABR dont know abt the backbaone area network s address

in order to advertise them with a help of this virtual lan, we r using vlan in switching 

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Lata Patel

  • Jun 7th, 2006
 

Vlan is virtual Lan...

vlan have 2 main advantages:

1] it is used for security purpose, eg by making vlan u can diffenrentiate group.

2]u can increase collision domain, so collision is reduced

 

dharmesh

  • Jul 15th, 2006
 

VLAN also refers to a LAN port grouping within a single switch. VLANs improve security by isolating groups. A VLAN is a bridging domain and all broadcast and multicast traffic is contained within it.

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