“Allowed VLANs,” Alex muttered. “Add 30.”

no vlan 20 Suddenly, PC2 (Engineering, S1) went dark. Not just isolated—gone. The port was still there, but the VLAN didn’t exist. The switch didn’t drop the packets; it just shrugged.

Alex did this for all three switches, matching the color-coded diagram in Packet Tracer. Red for Accounting. Blue for Engineering. Green for Staff.

enable configure terminal vlan 10 name Accounting vlan 20 name Engineering vlan 30 name Staff end It felt like naming three new pets. But switches don’t wag tails. They just add lines to a file called vlan.dat .

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