Archive for the tag '802.1q'

Nov 27 2007

VLAN Trunking using IEEE 802.1Q

Published byBrad Hedlund under CCIE, Switching

IEEE 802.1Q (sometimes referred to as 1Q or DOT1Q) is a industry standards based implementation of carring traffic for multiple VLANs on a single trunking interface between two Ethernet switches. 802.1Q is for Ethernet networks only.
Unlike ISL , 802.1Q does not encapsulate the original Ethernet frame.
For Ethernet V2 frames, 802.1Q inserts a new 4-byte [...]

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