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L2 Segments

Our L2 Segments service allows you to unite servers within a location group in a broadcast domain and enhance networks by connecting isolated groups of devices. This provides better control, customization, and optimal performance.

By choosing servers.com as a hosting provider for your applications, you retain control over the definition of your network environment. Whether it's the usage of IP address spaces, creation of subnets, or floating IP addresses, you can have it.

Using VXLAN technology, we have built a service called L2 Segments, also known as the broadcast domain.

Getting started

L2 Segments by servers.com are easily configurable. In just a few clicks you can create them in the customer portal and add or remove servers from a segment. No need to create support tickets. No need to wait.

Use Cases

Here are some of the main use cases for L2 Segments: Network segmentation, Floating IP addresses, Custom IP addressing, Multicast.

Features and limitations

There are some features and limitations of L2, which we have listed here in this knowledge base article. Read here for more information.

Billing

The L2 segment service is billed per usage of the previous month. Using the service does not impact traffic pricing - it remains individual for each server.

API reference

An API toolkit is provided for managing L2 Segment. With this API, you gain full control over the creation, configuration, and deletion of L2 Segments in your network infrastructure.

Terms and definitions

Read about all the terms and definitions related to L2 segments here in this knowledge base article.

Configuring tagged trunks

The L2 segments service on the servers.com platform allows for the creation of virtualized Layer 2 subnets or segments over an underlying Layer 3 network. Learn more.