Port based VLAN?

[KarlElliott]

Please help, I need to connect 2 Nortel Meridians to my network, however I can not have any broadcast traffic hitting the Meridians. The meridians are at different locations connected by a WAN. Is the best way to join them a port based VLAN? or some other solution? I am using Optivity switch manager, what is the easiest way to configure the Nortel switches? One is a 8600, the other is a 450.

Thanks in advance.

 

[biv343]

Port based VLAN's will work fine. You'll want to define your VLAN's on the 450 with whatever VLAN ID's you want to define (VLAN1 for data, VLAN 2 for the Meridian TLAN connections). Configure your uplink port to the 8600 as a tagged trunk, make it a member of both VLANs, then do the same on the 8600. Add whatever IP address to the TLAN VLAN on the 8600, and you should be good to go.