Burn rack dynamic virtual local area network
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Dec 24, 2002
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Oct 22, 1999
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Method and apparatus for dynamically connecting a system under test ('SUT') to and disconnecting an SUT from a private VLAN in a computer manufacturing environment is described. In a preferred embodiment, each time an SUT disposed in a burn rack boots up, a VLAN-capable switch (hereinafter 'CAT') connected thereto checks the media access control ('MAC') address of the SUT against a MAC address-to-VLAN correlation table ('MAC-VLAN table'). If the SUT's MAC address is not listed in the MAC-VLAN table, the CAT connects the SUT to a predefined default VLAN; i.e., the manufacturer's main manufacturing network. If the SUT's MAC address is included in the MAC-VLAN table, there is a private VLAN associated with the SUT and the CAT connects the SUT to the associated VLAN in a conventional fashion, at which point custom configuration can be performed as needed on the private VLAN.
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