All that we have seen up to now has been based on the port-based VLAN, which is a very common one. But also, on the CRS3xx series, you can use MAC-Based VLAN.
What is exactly the MAC Based VLAN? The concept is very easy; each network device has a MAC address on its network interface card which is unique. What we can do, we can configure the switch in a way that each MAC address will belong to a particular VLAN. That means in case my PC is on VLAN 10, if I connect my PC to anywhere in the network then I will also remain on VLAN 10. That makes things much easier for many network administrators.
Enough from theory, let’s see how we can apply this on a LAB. I have already wiped out all configurations on my switches.
LAB: MAC-Based VLAN
I have the following LAB. I have R1 connected to SW1 on the interface Ether1, and on the other hand, I have connected my PC to the interface Ether2 of SW1.
I am going to create a VLAN20 interface on R1, where I will enable the DCHP server on it, then on SW1, I will have to make Ether1 as a Trunk port and assign the MAC address of the PC to be on VLAN 20. Then I need to see if the PC will get an IP address from the DHCP server.
Let’s start the work on R1. I will create the VLAN under Ether1 and assign it an IP address:
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