From: Hansang Bae (hbae@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 02:10:27 GMT-3
At 09:59 PM 12/5/2001 -0800, Erick B. wrote:
>The Native VLAN is the VLAN that port is in if it were
>an access-port (non trunk port). With 802.1Q the
>native VLAN on the trunk port is not tagged, and the
>rest of the VLANs are tagged.
It's also the only vlan that will transported across the trunk should the
trunk fail.
[snip]
>In recent IOS versions, you can have a subinterface
>and do 'encaps dot1q # native' as well to put the
>native VLAN on the sub-interface. In older IOSs
>without 'native' option you had to put it on major.
And in newer code, you can also do "set dot1q-all-tagged" to tag even the
native VLAN. This can be a life-saver when dealing with different vendors
who *do* tag their native VLANs.
hsb
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