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Basic rules

When creating a VLAN using Device Manager, keep in mind the following rules:

• The ports in a VLAN or MultiLink Trunk must be a subset of a single spanning tree group.
• VLANs must have unique VLAN IDs and names.
• An access (nontagged) port can belong to one and only one protocol-based VLAN for a given protocol.
• An access (nontagged) port can belong to one and only one port-based VLAN.
• The Default VLAN (VLAN ID 1) cannot be renamed or deleted, and it cannot have its type changed from port-based VLAN.

• Creating a port-based VLAN
• Creating a source IP subnet-based VLAN
• Creating a protocol-based VLAN
• Configuring user-defined protocols in protocol-based VLANs
• Creating a source MAC address-based VLAN
• Creating a source MAC address-based VLAN (using batch files)