Cisco Systems native vlan question

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native vlan question aaabbb16 04-15-08
Posted by on April 15, 2008, 3:51 am
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A lot of people ask native vlan question.
I think using "vlan dot1q tag native" should eliminate this question.
at least for sw---sw connection. (all tagged just like isl)
I may not fully understand what's purpose why cisco make "native
vlan".
Some article say because of backward compatible with 802.3.
Can anyone give an example?

TIA,
st



Posted by Trendkill on April 15, 2008, 7:13 am
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On Apr 15, 3:51 am, aaabb...@hotmail.com wrote:
> A lot of people ask native vlan question.
> I think using "vlan dot1q tag native" should eliminate this question.
> at least for sw---sw connection. (all tagged just like isl)
> I may not fully understand what's purpose why cisco make "native
> vlan".
> Some article say because of backward compatible with 802.3.
> Can anyone give an example?
>
> TIA,
> st

Here are some good posts on this topic. Probably better than one of
us typing up several paragraphs. The second article explains native
vlan / vlan 1, and management interface concerns.

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t30335-native-vlan.html
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t40938-native-and-management-vlan-quotvlan-1quot.html

Posted by on April 15, 2008, 1:07 pm
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On 4=D4=C215=C8=D5, =C9=CF=CE=E74=CA=B113=B7=D6, Trendkill <jpma...@gmail.co=
m> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 3:51 am, aaabb...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > A lot of people ask native vlan question.
> > I think using "vlan dot1q tag native" should eliminate this question.
> > at least for sw---sw connection. (all tagged just like isl)
> > I may not fully understand what's purpose why cisco make "native
> > vlan".
> > Some article say because of backward compatible with 802.3.
> > Can anyone give an example?
>
> > TIA,
> > st
>
> Here are some good posts on this topic. Probably better than one of
> us typing up several paragraphs. The second article explains native
> vlan / vlan 1, and management interface concerns.
>
> http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t30335-native-vlan.htmlhttp://www.ve=
locityreviews.com/forums/t40938-native-and-management-vl...

Still confuse something.

Posted by stephen on April 15, 2008, 4:13 pm
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> A lot of people ask native vlan question.
> I think using "vlan dot1q tag native" should eliminate this question.
> at least for sw---sw connection. (all tagged just like isl)
> I may not fully understand what's purpose why cisco make "native
> vlan".

cisco didnt invent this - it is part of 802.1Q.

> Some article say because of backward compatible with 802.3.

i suggest you try to find the standard and read around that,
maybe start at www.ieee.org

AFAIR some of the standards docs are without charge for Ethernet.

> Can anyone give an example?

there are 2 Qs to think about.

1. set a port to be tagged
- what do you do with a packet that arrives with no tag?

the 2 common answers are to throw it away, or to put it into some sort of
"default VLAN" - that is what untagged means for incoming packets.

not putting a tag on outbound packets form that VLAN on that port allows 2
way comms.

this sounds silly - but it is what often needs to happen when you hook up an
unconfigured device to set it up.

2. what happens when you want to split up 2 streams of packets on a port?

sometimes you have a device that will add its own stream of packets to a set
it gets from elsewhere
- the classic case is an IP phone where there is a plug on the phone to
connect a PC.
- Pcs dont normally send tagged frames, and the 3 port bridge in the phone
doesnt have the horsepower to wrap a tag around every packet.
- but you want the phone traffic kept separate from PC (security, QoS and
so on).

So - pass the PC packet thru untagged, and tag the phone traffic.
At the switch the PC "stuff" is untagged and goes into the native VLAN,
phone traffic is tagged and goes into a different VLAN.
>
> TIA,
> st
>
--
Regards

stephen_hope@xyzworld.com - replace xyz with ntl



Posted by on April 15, 2008, 11:31 pm
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On 4=D4=C215=C8=D5, =CF=C2=CE=E71=CA=B113=B7=D6, "stephen" <stephen_h...@xyz=
world.com> wrote:
>
>
> > A lot of people ask native vlan question.
> > I think using "vlan dot1q tag native" should eliminate this question.
> > at least for sw---sw connection. (all tagged just like isl)
> > I may not fully understand what's purpose why cisco make "native
> > vlan".
>
> cisco didnt invent this - it is part of 802.1Q.
>
> > Some article say because of backward compatible with 802.3.
>
> i suggest you try to find the standard and read around that,
> maybe start atwww.ieee.org
>
> AFAIR some of the standards docs are without charge for Ethernet.
>
> > Can anyone give an example?
>
> there are 2 Qs to think about.
>
> 1. set a port to be tagged
> - what do you do with a packet that arrives with no tag?
>
> the 2 common answers are to throw it away, or to put it into some sort of
> "default VLAN" - that is what untagged means for incoming packets.
>
> not putting a tag on outbound packets form that VLAN on that port allows 2=

> way comms.
>
> this sounds silly - but it is what often needs to happen when you hook up =
an
> unconfigured device to set it up.
>
> 2. what happens when you want to split up 2 streams of packets on a port?
>
> sometimes you have a device that will add its own stream of packets to a s=
et
> it gets from elsewhere
> - the classic case is an IP phone where there is a plug on the phone to
> connect a PC.
> - Pcs dont normally send tagged frames, and the 3 port bridge in the phone=

> doesnt have the horsepower to wrap a tag around every packet.
> - but you want the phone traffic kept separate from PC (security, QoS and=

> so on).
>
> So - pass the PC packet thru untagged, and tag the phone traffic.
> At the switch the PC "stuff" is untagged and goes into the native VLAN,
> phone traffic is tagged and goes into a different VLAN.
>
> > TIA,
> > st
>
> --
> Regards
>
> stephen_h...@xyzworld.com - replace xyz with ntl

Thanks,
For "Some article say because of backward compatible with 802.3"
they may think far end is Hub or switch/bridge which does not support
802.3,
right?
One more question, when a access port receive a untag frame, does it
add
a 802.1q tag or some other tag to make sure it can go same vlan inside
of
this switch?


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