Configuring VLANs on an X-Pedition Router

Because X-Pedition routers perform some self configuration, setting up VLANs on these devices with Console may occasionally be confusing. Thorough planning for the VLANs on your network and this topic can help you to configure VLANs on your X-Pedition routers.

Creating VLANs on X-Pedition Routers

Here is the recommended outline for establishing VLANs on your X-Pedition routers:

  • Create a separate VLAN Model for your X-Pedition routers.
  • Decide what VLANs you'll need on your network and create as many VLAN Definitions for each.
  • Synchronize the VLANs on your X-Pedition devices with the VLANs that you've created in Console.
  • Make changes to your VLAN Definitions as necessary and Enforce.
  • Decide which ports will be used as trunk ports and which will be used as access ports (these are determined by your settings for the Acceptable Frame Type on the various ports) and create Port Template Definitions for those ports.
  • Add the ports to the desired VLANs egress lists, assign PVIDs and apply Port Templates to selected ports.
  • Enforce.
  • Make changes to VLANs, Port Templates, and PVIDs as necessary and Enforce.
  1. Create a VLAN model dedicated to X-Pedition routers:
    1. Click the VLAN tab in the right panel of the Console main window.
    2. Select the VLAN Element Editor from the Tools menu (or click the  on the toolbar).
    3. In the left panel of the VLAN Element Editor, right-click the VLAN Elements folder and select Add VLAN Model from the popup menu. This adds a "New VLAN Model" under the VLAN Elements folder, with its name highlighted.
    4. Type a name for the newly created model, or leave the new name as is, and press Enter.
  2. Create your VLANs:
    1. In the left panel, expand the VLAN Elements folder, expand your new VLAN model, then select the VLAN Definitions folder. The VLAN Definitions view appears in the right panel.
    2. Click New.
    3. In the VLAN Name text box in the lower portion of the VLAN Definitions view, change the name of the VLAN to fit your requirements. Although the VLAN name is only serves as a human-readable element, you cannot create a VLAN on an X-Pedition router if its name is left blank.
    4. If required, change the VID for the VLAN in the VLAN ID box.
    5. Define the properties for your new VLAN. The VLAN retains the properties of the previously displayed VLAN. Edit these as needed.
      • Check Write VLAN to Devices. This will download this VLAN Definition to selected devices when you enforce.
      • Uncheck Dynamic Egress and IGMP. Dynamic Egress and IGMP are not supported on X-Pedition Routers.
      • If you are creating this VLAN using an X-Pedition Protocol Filter, check X-Pedition Protocol Filter and select a protocol from the Protocols area.
         RECOMMENDATION:Create a separate VLAN for each protocol filter that you will be configuring. Do not create more than one VLAN using the same protocol filter.

         NOTES:
        1. You cannot change and enforce the X-Pedition Protocol Filters for the Default VLAN.
        2. If this VLAN will be assigned to an access port (Acceptable Frame Type set to Accept All), then you can only select a single protocol and that protocol cannot be configured for another VLAN.

    6. Click Save. The VLAN is added to the VLAN model.
    7. Repeat these steps to create additional VLANs.

    X-Pedition routers are configured with System Static VLANs that cannot be changed. These System Static VLANs should be merged with your new VLAN Definitions to synchronize the VLAN definition on your devices with the definitions in Console.

  3. Synchronize VLAN Definitions:
    1. In left panel of Console's main window, select the devices where you want to apply your new VLANs.
    2. In the right panel, select the VLAN tab and click Device.
    3. Select the Static System VLANs (VLAN names begin with SYS-- e.g., SYS-L3-SmartTrunk-Only-Intf) in the VLAN Definitions for Device: x.x.x.x table.
    4. Select any other VLANs on the device that you want to include in your VLAN definition. If you are not sure, merge them now. You'll be able to delete then later or change them and enforce them with your changes.
    5. Click  Merge Merge to add the VLANs from the device into your VLAN model.
    6. In the VLAN Elements Editor, VLAN Definitions folder.
    7. Select each VLAN merged from the device, in turn, and delete unwanted VLANs and change definitions where necessary. Refer to Modifying VLANs for information on changing VLAN Definitions, then return here to enforce your VLANs.
    8. When you're satisfied with the definitions, click    to enforce your VLAN definitions in the VLAN tab, Device view.
       NOTE:X-Pedition devices to not always refresh the tables and views in Console when you perform an enforce. So, you must click  Retrieve Retrieve, after an enforce to see the correct results in Console's views.
  4. Define your Port Templates:
    1. Select the Port Templates folder in the left panel of the VLAN Elements Editor window.
    2. Click New to add a new Port Template.
    3. In the Port Template Name field, change the name of the Port Template to fit your requirements.
    4. If you know the particular VLAN ID that you will be assigning with this Port Template, check Set PVID and select the VLAN ID from the associated drop-down list. Otherwise leave Set PVID unchecked. You will be able to assign the PVID later when you assign VLANs to selected ports.
    5. Uncheck Ingress Filtering, GARP Join Time, GARP Leave Time, and GARP Leave All Time. These features are not supported in the X-Pedition.
    6. If you are configuring this template for a trunk port, click Acceptable Frame Type and select Accept Tagged Only from the drop down list. The PVID Egress State is automatically updated to Tagged.
    7. If you are configuring this template for an access port, click Acceptable Frame Type and select Accept All from the drop down list. The PVID Egress State is automatically updated to Tagged.
       NOTES:
      1. If this Port Template specifies a VLAN that will be assigned to an access port (Acceptable Frame Type set to Accept All), then the VLAN can only specify a single protocol for the X-Pedition Protocol Filter and that protocol cannot be configured for another VLAN.
      2. You can also create Port Templates to define other common port configurations and apply them from either the VLAN tab Basic or VLAN tab Advanced view.

    8. Always check Configure Egress States. Do not click Make Q Trunk
    9. Set the Egress State for all the System Static VLANs in the table to No Change. (Select all of the System Static VLANs, then right click on one and choose No Change from the popup menu.)
    10. Click Save.
  5. Assign Port Templates to your device ports.
    This can be done from either the VLAN tab, Basic or Advanced view. The following steps show you how to assign Port Templates using the VLAN tab, Advanced view:
    1. Click a FlexView Tab (e.g., Interface Summary) and open the 802.1Q VLAN Static Table FlexView. (click  Open  Open and navigate into the VLAN folder, then select 802.1Q VLAN Static Table.tpl.)
       NOTES:In an X-Pedition Router:
      1. You cannot assign a VLAN to a port unless the VLAN exists on the device. You must first enforce the VLAN from the VLAN tab, Device view.
      2. You cannot assign a VLAN to a port (set the PVID) unless the port is listed on the VLANs Egress list. The 802.1Q VLAN Static Table FlexView is where you can add ports to a VLAN's Egress list.
  6. Select the device(s) where you want to assign PVIDs or Port Templates and click  Retrieve  Retrieve on the FlexView toolbar.
  7. Click  Table Editor Button,  select the VLAN that you want to apply to a port and type the port number(s) into the table editor row for the Static Egress Ports column.
  8. Repeat step c to assign other VLANs to other ports.
  9. Click Enforce Enforce.
  10. Click the VLAN tab Advanced view in the Console main window.
  11. In the table in the upper half of the view, select the port(s) where you want to assign a Port Template (one or more of the ports added to the VLANs Static Egress Ports list in step c).
  12. Select a port template from the Port Template drop-down list in the lower right side of the view.
  13. Click Enforce Enforce and then Retrieve Retrieve. If you checked Set PVID and defined a particular VLAN ID when you created your Port Template, then the PVID for the ports has been set to the VLAN ID that you specified. If you left Set PVID unchecked, you must now assign a VLAN (set the PVID) on those ports.
  14. Assign VLANS to your device ports:
    1. Click the VLAN tab, Basic view in Console's main view and click Table Editor Button.
    2. Select a port where you want to assign a VLAN (one of the ports added to the VLANs Static Egress Ports list in step 5c).
    3. Click the table editor row for the PVID column and select a VLAN ID from the drop-down list.
    4. Repeat steps b and c to assign additional VLANs to other ports.
    5. Click Enforce Enforce and then Retrieve Retrieve. The PVID on the selected ports is now set to the selected VLAN ID.
  NOTE: On the X-Pedition Router, assigning a PVID (that exists on the device) in the Basic Port view and enforcing may incorrectly report an error, placing a red X in the PVID table cell.

Refresh the table by performing a Retrieve to remove the X.

Modifying VLANs on X-Pedition Routers

This section provides help for tasks that may differ slightly for X-Pedition Routers from how the same task is performed for other routers.

Instructions on:

Removing a VLAN from a VLAN Model

  NOTES:
  1. The Default VLAN for a model cannot be deleted. If you select a Default VLAN as one of a several VLANs to be deleted, only the non-Default VLANs will be deleted.
  2. On X-Pedition Routers, If you delete a VLAN that is assigned to one or more ports, the PVID for those ports will be set to the Default VLAN (1).
  1. Select the VLAN Element Editor from the Tools menu.
  2. In the left panel, expand the VLAN Elements folder.
  3. Expand the VLAN model whose VLAN you want to remove, and expand the VLAN Definitions folder for that model.
  4. In the left panel, right-click the VLAN you want to remove and select Remove from Group
    or
    in the right panel, select the VLAN in the VLANs table on the Properties tab, and click Delete.
  5. Read the confirmation message, and click Yes to proceed.

Editing Port VLAN Settings

You can edit the VLAN settings on individual ports using the Custom editor accessible from the Show/Hide Table Editor button  in the Basic Port view of the VLAN tab in Console's main window. You can either edit the existing port setting on the device, or select a port template from the drop-down list in the Custom editor and use it as is or edit it. After editing, you enforce to write the changes to the port(s).

To edit port settings:

  1. In the My Network folder on the left panel, select the device(s) whose port(s) you want to edit.
  2. In the right panel, select the VLAN tab in Console's main window.
  3. Select the Basic Port radio button to display the Basic Port view of the VLAN tab in Console's main window.
  4. Click Show/Hide Table Editor  to open the edit area below the table. When editing the table, refer to VLAN Tab (Basic Port) for column definitions, if needed.
    • To change an existing setting on the port: Select the port you want to edit. In the Table Editor, edit the appropriate column, pressing Enter after editing each column.
    • To use settings from a port template to edit port settings: Select the port(s) you want to edit. Select the VLAN model at the top of the tab, then select the port template from the Custom drop-down list. (When you select a template, the column values change to the template settings, but the choice in the drop-down box still displays Custom.) You can leave the template settings as is, or use the Table Editor to edit them as needed. Settings not checked in the template itself are not editable (see Port Template Definitions view. Press Enter after editing a column.
       NOTES:
      1. If you change the Acceptable Frame Type to Accept Tagged Only, the port becomes a trunk port and the PVID is automatically set to the Default VLAN.
      2. Configure Egress States cannot be set in the Basic Port view. Use the Advanced Port View to set these values.
      3. GVRP, GARP Join Time, GARP Leave Time, GARP Leave All Time, are not supported in the X-Pedition Router.

  5. A green exclamation point  appears in the table if a setting will be written to the port when you enforce.
     NOTE:To cancel changes and restore the original values, click Show/Hide Table Editor to hide the Table Editor before enforcing the values in the table.
  6. Click Enforce . A red  appears if the enforcing of a particular setting fails.
     NOTE:On the X-Pedition Router, assigning a PVID (that exists on the device) in the Basic Port view and enforcing may incorrectly report an error, placing a red X in the PVID table cell.

    Refresh the table by performing a Retrieve to remove the X.

Deleting a VLAN Model

To delete a VLAN model:

  1. In the left panel, expand the VLAN Elements Editor.
  2. Right-click the VLAN Model you want to delete and select Remove from Group. Read the confirmation message, and click Yes to proceed.
  NOTES:
  1. The Default VLAN for a model cannot be deleted. If you select a Default VLAN as one of a several VLANs to be deleted, only the non-Default VLANs will be deleted.
  2. On X-Pedition Routers, If you delete a VLAN that is assigned to one or more ports, the PVID for those ports will be set to the Default VLAN (1).

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