A virtual local area network (VLAN) is an inattentive LAN that is formed to function through the data link layer (layer 2) of the OSI network model. Dissimilar from a physical local area network or LAN, in which a hardware arrangement houses point-to-point identification and admittance byway of physical network, VLANs are created with remote partitions in workstations so that separate node report interchanges with the virtual partition, not the physical workstation.