VLAN unaware bridge

Hello, Would like to know whehter L2switch is not VLAN aware bridge will forward VLAN tagged packets to VLAN unaware hosts.

How L2Bridge will act if its receives VLAN tagged packets.

Thanks in Advance.

-Kamaraj

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Kamaraj
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As I understand it, there is some possibility that full length packets, which are four bytes longer than the standard, will be discarded. I haven't heard that any do that, though.

Pass them through in the same way as any other packet.

-- glen

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glen herrmannsfeldt

How it will work if the end station is a host not an L2Bridge device. I mean the end station also VLAN unaware device.

Thanks In Advance

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Kamaraj

On 05.05.2008 10:36 Kamaraj wrote

It works the same way. Though why would you want to connect a vlan unaware device to a 802.1q/tagged port?

Arnold Nipper

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Arnold Nipper

Kamaraj wrote: (snip)

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You have to consider VLAN as part of the network design, and not connect VLAN unaware devices to ports with VLAN tags on them destined for that device.

Though these days, there is likely VLAN software for most operating systems.

-- glen

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glen herrmannsfeldt

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