As a follow-up to the post yesterday on native VLANs, there was a question on what would happen to 802.1Q-tagged frames traversing an unmanaged switch. Unmanaged in this case being a switch that does not support VLANs. While this might
Why Do We Have Native VLANs?
Recently, my friend Andy Lapteff asked an excellent question. Why do we have native VLANs? As in, why allow untagged frames on a trunk link? There was a time where we didn’t have VLANs. At first there was hubs, then
Vol1 diagramming and assigning VLANs
This is a post dedicated to people that have just started their CCIE studies. When I first started I wasn’t used to the type of diagrams used in the CCIE workbooks. Even though I have several years of experience and
VLAN – Notes
Private VLANs Commonly used in SP networks to put users in common subnet but no direct forwarding of packets between customers in same VLAN. Enforce security by forcing traffic to go through router instead of switched locally. There are three