Re: native vlan

2009-08-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 12:12 -0700, Graham Smith wrote: > requiring creation of native vlan (vlan 0) and why native vlan are > most suitable for this scene ? Cisco highly recommend changing the management VLAN away from VLAN1. Here's an example, of using alternative native VLANs, ironically, on t

Re: native vlan

2009-08-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Balázs Mátéffy wrote: > Hi, > > I would add, that if you have hosts, a hub or an unmanaged switch without > vlan capability between two switches with vlans those devices will use the > native vlan. This isn't entirely accurate. Note that the VLAN tag is applied during the ingress into the switch

Re: native vlan

2009-08-24 Thread Bruce Simpson
Graham Smith wrote: Networking folks Nothing to do with freebsd per say, but can someone tell real life scenario requiring creation of native vlan (vlan 0) and why native vlan are most suitable for this scene ? Assuming you're referring to what's in the 802.1q header: it's what 802.1p puts i

Re: native vlan

2009-08-24 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, I would add, that if you have hosts, a hub or an unmanaged switch without vlan capability between two switches with vlans those devices will use the native vlan. And another thing: you have to make the native vlan the same on the switches or you will get native vlan error messages. In cisco th

RE: native vlan

2009-08-24 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Well, in Cisco speak, the native vlan is untagged and used for management. So, all your customer traffic comes in tagged with various VLAN's and your management stuff remains untagged and localized to the switching infrastructure. So, I guess you would do it if you wanted to speak spanning tree (