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  • I am having a hard time grasping the idea of a "dedicated management port". An arista 7050t-36 has a dedicated port that I can talk out of band with from a client. A netgear m7100-24x does not (I believe), in the GUI interface I set up a management vlan. Does this mean every port on the switch is in that vlan and no matter what port I am, I can talk management? Commented May 5, 2016 at 18:39
  • Ports are in the VLAN you configure them to be. You can configure ports to be in the same VLAN as the switch management interface. The management interface is often a logical, rather than a physical interface. This is dependent on the vendor and switch model. For instance, Cisco switches can have a management interface on any, or all, VLANs within the switch; you just configure a layer-3 SVI and assign it an IP address. When the switch, itself, wants to send something on such a VLAN, it sources it from the SVI of that VLAN. Commented May 5, 2016 at 18:44