Re: Loopbacks and VLANs

From: Patrick Aland (paland@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 25 2005 - 23:14:08 GMT-3


Its a routed interface so its not really in a vlan at all.
Just as if you take a switchport and do a "no switchport" on it

On 8/25/05, Stephen Hull <shull@getsouthern.com> wrote:
> I have a question about Loopbacks and VLANs and I was hoping someone
> could help me with this. I have searched the GS archives and found
> nothing and I have read a lot of the Cisco DocCD and still can't find
> the answer. My question is this. When you create a loopback interface
> on a switch, what VLAN does it get put into? I know you can include the
> network address of the loopback into routing protocols, but what VLAN
> would it actually be in? I know that it is not necessary to put the
> loopback into a VLAN and I am not sure if you actually can do that. I
> guess with some manipulation you could. Anyway, I am running a lab
> scenario right now where the switch is peering with a router with eBGP
> and it is using the loopback on the switch. It just occurred to me
> after looking more at the configs that I was not peering with the
> "directly" connected interface. If I were using a directly connected
> interface, it would be one of the VLAN interfaces where I have added an
> I P address.
>
>
>
> I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this. I am just
> trying to learn more about the operations and logic behind the routers
> and switches.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help. It is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> -Stephen
>
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-- 
--Patrick


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