Re: is 802.1q deprecated?

From: Radioactive Frog (pbhatkoti@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 10:57:51 ART


workerbee, rual, Petr,
Come on guys, let is get right first. most people getting lost in this
concept.

I am repeating it again --> 802.1p is a part of 802.1Q header (Tag).

A couple of weeks ago I was marking Master level student's assignment and
this question was there. So I had to refurbish myself again on this topic.

http://www.internetworkpro.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1q

frog

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Pavel Bykov <slidersv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Lol, I kind of laughed when I saw this.
> I think it's a typo for 802.1d - that would be closer to reality, but even
> that is not too real, since even MST still uses it, and only with TRILL we
> will see the change.
>
> 802.1q is only advancing so far. Technology deprecation, like synchronous,
> L2 services, like VPLS, L2 backbones, like metro rings... Eveything
> introduces just more and more Q, QinQ and QinQinQ...
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Reza Toghraee <reza@toghraee.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > I was reading a network design which was done by Cisco people. In the
> > switching section, it said "802.1q is an old protocol and we will not use
> > it". It didn't mentioned anything about the replace protocol. I'm
> wondering
> > how is possible to send traffic of multiple VLANs over a single uplink
> > without 802.1q tag. (maybe are suggesting ISL in this way, but I think
> ISL
> > is older than 802.1q).
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there any new trunking protocol?
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Reza Toghraee
> >
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