VTP is a Cisco proprietary protocol used in switching environment to reduce the administrative overhead of managing VLANs configuration.Lets explore how VTP can reduce VLAN management tasks by the following example: Assuming that you have only three switches in your network and you need to configure 3 VLANs with each switch is having members in [...]
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Native VLAN
June 6th, 2008 Wael Osama Posted in Bridging & Switching 3 Comments »
Native VLAN is a dot1Q concept that was created for backward compatibility with old devices that don’t support VLANs. Full story detailed below.. How Native VLAN works? Frames belonging to the native VLAN are not tagged when sent out on the trunk links so older devices can simply understand. Frames received untagged on the trunk [...]
