ECS4110-28T_Management Guide

C HAPTER 37 | VLAN Commands
Configuring VLAN Interfaces
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Figure 426: Configuring VLAN Trunking
Without VLAN trunking, you would have to configure VLANs 1 and 2 on
all intermediate switches – C, D and E; otherwise these switches would
drop any frames with unknown VLAN group tags. However, by enabling
VLAN trunking on the intermediate switch ports along the path
connecting VLANs 1 and 2, you only need to create these VLAN groups
in switches A and B. Switches C, D and E automatically allow frames
with VLAN group tags 1 and 2 (groups that are unknown to those
switches) to pass through their VLAN trunking ports.
◆ VLAN trunking is mutually exclusive with the “access” switchport mode
(see the switchport mode command). If VLAN trunking is enabled on an
interface, then that interface cannot be set to access mode, and vice
versa.
◆ To prevent loops from forming in the spanning tree, all unknown VLANs
will be bound to a single instance (either STP/RSTP or an MSTP
instance, depending on the selected STA mode).
◆ If both VLAN trunking and ingress filtering are disabled on an interface,
packets with unknown VLAN tags will still be allowed to enter this
interface and will be flooded to all other ports where VLAN trunking is
enabled. (In other words, VLAN trunking will still be effectively enabled
for the unknown VLAN).
EXAMPLE
The following example enables VLAN trunking on ports 27 and 28 to
establish a path across the switch for unknown VLAN groups:
Console(config)#interface ethernet 1/27
Console(config-if)#vlan-trunking
Console(config-if)#interface ethernet 1/28
Console(config-if)#vlan-trunking
Console(config-if)#