Ethernet connects the hosts on each floor to switches A, B, C, and D. 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet connects these to Switch E. VLAN 10 consists of those hosts on ports 6 and 8 of Switch A and Port 2 on Switch B. VLAN 20 consists of those hosts that are on Port 1 of Switch A and Ports 1 and 3 of Switch B. VLANs can be used to group a set of related users, regardless of their physical connectivity. They can be …showed first 75 words of 1387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1387 total…be "glued" together by maintaining a bridged path for it through the network. For Switch X and nodes in VLAN 20 (subnet 20), traffic is switched locally if appropriate. If traffic is destined for a node in VLAN 30 (subnet 30) from a node in VLAN 20, Router Y routes it through the backbone to Router Z. If traffic from Segment D on VLAN 10 is destined for a node in VLAN 20, Router Y routes it back out the FDDI interface.