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A trunk is a connection between switches where multiple VLAN's pass.

A trunk is a connection between switches where multiple VLAN's pass.

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How do VLANs work?

What are VLANs? What problems do they solve? I'm helping a friend learn basic networking, as he's just become the sole sysadmin at a small company. I've been pointing him at various questions/answers on Serverfault relating to various networking…
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What happens when a consumer switch receives a VLAN-tagged Ethernet frame?

Suppose you connect a trunk port from a VLAN capable network switch to a (VLAN incapable) consumer-grade network switch via a direct cable. Now the former switch send the later switch a 802.1Q-tagged Ethernet frame. What should the later switch do?…
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Cisco and Linux and Vlans

I appear to have some fundamental misunderstanding of how VLANs work on Linux, and I'm hoping the good people here can educate me. Cast: One Cisco 3560, one VLAN, and one Linux box [1]. Cisco --------------- Linux ge0/1 eth0 The…
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HP Procurve Issue Passing Multiple VLANs over a link

Just to start off with I am a Cisco guy that got placed into an HP project. Basic topology overview from outside in: ASA 5505 with two Ethernet connections to a 2610 switch. This switch is then trunking* to a 2626 switch passing vlan 1 (untagged)…
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Multiple, different VLAN trunks to KVM guests (Linux)

I've hit a roadblock of sorts with an architectural challenge. I've got a server running KVM - which will feature a number of guests, some running virtualised firewalls and others, just plain web servers. The web servers need a single untagged VLAN…
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Difference between trunk and tagged port

I am reading some wikipedia articles and RFC 5517, studying VLANs, and I don't recognize the difference between a trunk port and a tagged port. From what the material I am reading says, a tagged port is used to allow a host to be seen from…
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Procurve Primary VLAN

I'm trying to depreciate usage of VLAN 1 on my ProCurve switches; 1 is unused. I understand that VLAN 1 must exist, but I want to remove it from all ports, especially trunks between switches. The problem I have is that stacking does not seem to work…
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how to make Windows server 2012R2 NIC connect to trunk,but with a VLAN ID

Windows Server 2012R2 ,with hyper-v. for hyper-v 's guest os connecting to multi vlan, host 's NIC connect to trunk port on switch hub. but I want set host os with VLAN ID(VLAN 10) ,for with a VLAN 10 IP address.
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Configuring Sonicwall to route VLAN traffic to internet

I have a Sonicwall NSA 2400 that had its configuration reset and I'm having trouble reconfiguring it. The Sonicwall's WAN port (X1) connects to the internet. Its LAN port (X0) connects to a 3Com 4500G switch (Layer 3 enabled) which I connected…
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Stacking two Netgear GS748TS switches via HDMI - only 1Gbps trunk bandwidth?

I have two Netgear GS748TS 48 port gigabit stackable switches, which when stacked via two HDMI cables allow hosts on one of the switches to talk to hosts on the other. Netgear claim that the HDMI trunk allows for 10Gbps of bandwidth, but when I test…
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Bond on top of VLANs or VLANs on Top of Bond

Both ways seem possible. What is the better approach within Linux? Better means more efficient assuming my switch doesn't know about LACP+Tagging. Thanks!
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HP Procurve Core Switch Architecture

I want to build a new 'core' for our network. We currently have a 3com 4060 switch acting as the core, connecting all the other TOR and access switches together. The goal is to add resilience into the core, without compromising performance. Each…
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What are the possible reasons for a SIP register failure?

I have setup an Elastix box (asterisk/freepbx based) and added a trunk for an external VoIP provider. When I get to the Asterisk command line interface and type sip show registry I always get the same output, State = Request Sent. So, since I can't…
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HP Procurve 1800 Switch-to-Switch Trunks and LACP (and VLANs too!)

I am considering connecting two (and possibly three) HP Procurve 1800 switches together with trunks or with LACP. I can't find any substantial answer to my questions via Google or here. I did find this question Server-to-Switch Trunking in Procurve…
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How to setup dual-wan trunking but keep one as main... (Weighted round robin, Least load first, spillover)

I'm working on setting up a zywall USG-100 firewall. I can get everything to work but now I'm trying to get the 2 wans to work correctly. They both work individually but I'm having trouble with the trunk setup. We have two connections, our main has…
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