The frames are actually switched all over the internetwork, it is important for the switches to keep the record of all the various kinds of frames, and also know how to utilize it on the basis of the hardware address. The management of frames is done in a different manner depending on the kind of link they are passing through.
The administrator create LANs and also assign switch ports to every VLAN. This type of VLAN is referred to as static VLAN . If the administrator is ready to put little more effort then he can assign hardware addresses to all the host devices in a database, in order to assign VLANs vitally the switches can be configured every time a host is connected/plugged into a switch.
You must have got some idea that the layer-2 switches have nothing to do with Network layer protocol but it only read frames for filtering. It forwards all the broadcasts, by default. In order to build and execute VLANs, you necessarily need to build smaller broadcast domains at layer-2 switches. In other words, the broadcasts sent in one VLAN from one node won’t be passed on to ports that are configured to be in some other VLAN. So, the users or switch ports can be easily assigned to groups of VLAN (known as a switch fabric ), you can flexibly add into that broadcast domain the users of your choice no matter where they physically exist.
In short, implementation of VLANs is in a way like breaking switches in more parts. When we take a normal switch, let’s say cisco one, it has all the ports configured in a way that every computer from one port can connect to any other computer connected to any other port on that switch. If we implement two VLANs on the switch, the computers connected to ports that are in the same VLANs will function normally and will be able to communicate without knowing that the VLANs are existing on the switch. But if we connect one computer to the port in VLAN 1 and some other computer to port in VLAN 90 these two computers will act like they are connected to different switches.
In every network where data is sent over to some node broadcasts take place, there are three things upon which the frequency of broadcast depends: