Suppose I have a linux machine, with two ethernet ports, both of which are acting as switchports (We're using Cumulus Linux on Quanta switches, so this is the case). I have ethernet frames that I want ...

I am almost as confused by your post as you are about VLANs, so lets take it slow and see where we get.<BR><BR>1) 802.1Q can add 4 bytes to the ethernet packet. (tagging) Any device not expecting ...

A Cisco switch configured as an access layer port with a voice vlan is actually an 802.1Q trunk that will only allow traffic tagged on the voice vlan. The last exception is very seldom used, but does ...

To begin, we must have a more formal definition of what a LAN is. LAN stands for local area network. Hubs and switches usually are thought of as participating in a single LAN. Normally, if you connect ...