General VLAN operation

A VLAN is composed of multiple ports operating as members of the same subnet or broadcast domain.

Ports on multiple devices can belong to the same VLAN.

Traffic moving between ports in the same VLAN is bridged (or switched).

Traffic moving between different VLANs must be routed.

A static VLAN is an 802.1Q-compliant VLAN, configured with one or more ports that remain members regardless of traffic usage.

A dynamic VLAN is an 802.1Q-compliant VLAN membership that the switch temporarily creates on a port to provide a link to another port either in the same VLAN on another device.