Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bill McGonigle writes:

> You can number and name VLAN's.  The range is 1-4092, but I read only 64
> simultaneous are available.

Yes, this is because each VLAN on the switch is modeled as being its
own seperate instantation of a bridge, and each instance takes up
system resources.

[...]

> There's another tab called 'PVID (Port VLAN ID)'.  You can type in a
> VLAN # here for each port.  I don't understand what this does that the
> previous tagging doesn't.  The help pages are syntactical, not
> conceptual in nature.

The PVID is the default VLAN tag that will be applied to an untagged
frame upon ingress to the switch.

Regards,

--kevin
-- 
If the packet is transmitted, it will fall into the ether;
If it remains in the queue, it will exceed its TTL,
That little VLAN tag
Is a very strange thing.