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How To Create and Delete VLAN On Cisco Catalyst Switch

This document provides instructions for creating and deleting VLANs on a Cisco Catalyst switch. It explains that VLANs allow dividing a physical switch into multiple virtual networks. It then describes how to create a VLAN by assigning ports to it using configuration commands. It also explains how to delete a VLAN by first assigning ports to the default VLAN 1 and then removing the VLAN configuration.

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How To Create and Delete VLAN On Cisco Catalyst Switch

This document provides instructions for creating and deleting VLANs on a Cisco Catalyst switch. It explains that VLANs allow dividing a physical switch into multiple virtual networks. It then describes how to create a VLAN by assigning ports to it using configuration commands. It also explains how to delete a VLAN by first assigning ports to the default VLAN 1 and then removing the VLAN configuration.

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How to Create and Delete VLAN on Cisco Catalyst Switch

One of the typical configuration activities youll perform on a Cisco Switch is to manipulate VLANs. VLAN stands for Virtual Local Area Network. In one physical cisco switch, you can create multiple VLANs that connect to different networks. For example, a VLAN for 10.10.191.0 network, a VLAN for 10.10.192.0 network, and a VLAN for 10.10.193.0 network. All three of these can be configured in the same physical switch. While these commands were tested on a cisco catalyst switch 3750 series, similar commands (may be with slight variation to the port number format) should work on all cisco switches.

Create VLAN on Cisco Switch


If you are planning to have only one network in your whole switch (for example, 10.10.192.0). i.e All the ports in the switch will be connected to the 10.10.192.0 network, then you dont need to create a VLAN, just use the default VLAN 1. Every switch comes with the default VLAN 1 as shown below. In this example, all the ports in this switch ( from 1 through 8 ) are part of the default VLAN 1.
#show vlan VLAN Name Status Ports ---- -------------------------------- --------- -----------1 default active Gi1/0/1, Gi1/0/2, Gi1/0/3, Gi1/0/4 Gi1/0/5, Gi1/0/6, Gi1/0/7, Gi1/0/8

In the following example, we are creating 192 VLAN network (for 10.10.192.0 network). While creating a VLAN you also need to specify the range of ports from the switch that needs to be part of this VLAN network. In this example, ports 3 through 6 are configured as part of 192 VLAN network.
config t vlan 192 interface range gigabitEthernet 1/0/3-6 switchport access vlan 192 exit

In the above commands:


config t Goes into the configuration mode vlan 192 Creates VLAN 192

interface range gigabitEthernet 1/0/3-6 Indicates that the port numbers 3 through 6 are assigned to this VLAN swithport access vlan 192 Indicates that the access to the vlan 192 is enabled

Apart from providing the access to the vlan 192 for the port numbers 3 through 6, you can also specify the following additional switchport configuration parameters (for example, nonegotiate and mode access)
config t interface range gigabitEthernet 1/0/3-6 switchport mode access switchport nonegotiate exit

Once youve created a VLAN verify it as shown below,


#show vlan VLAN ---1 192 Name Status Ports -------------------------------- --------- -----------default active Gi1/0/1, Gi1/0/2, Gi1/0/7, Gi1/0/8 VLAN0192 active Gi1/0/3, Gi1/0/4, Gi1/0/5, Gi1/0/6

Delete VLAN on Cisco Switch


You might want to delete a VLAN, if you are planning to switch the ports assigned to VLAN 192 to a different VLAN. Or, you might want to delete a VLAN, just because youve created it by mistake. Let us assume that you want to delete the VLAN 192 (ports 3 though 6) that you just created. Deleting a VLAN is as simple as assigning the default VLAN 1 to the ports that are part of the VLAN you want to delete, and delete the VLAN. i.e If you want to delete VLAN 192, assign VLAN 1 to the ports 3 through 6, and just delete the VLAN 192. First, assign the default VLAN 1 to ports 3 though 6 as shown below.
interface range gigabitEThernet 1/0/3-6 switchport access vlan 1 exit

Next, delete the vlan itself as shown below.


no vlan 192

Finally, verify that the VLAN 192 got deleted as shown below.

#show vlan VLAN Name Status Ports ---- -------------------------------- --------- -----------1 default active Gi1/0/1, Gi1/0/2, Gi1/0/3, Gi1/0/4 Gi1/0/5, Gi1/0/6, Gi1/0/7, Gi1/0/8

As a final note, if you dont know what you are doing, do not execute any of the above commands on production switch, as you might bring down your network. Do this only on a test system, where you can play around and learn how to manipulate VLANs on cisco switch.

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