VLAN Trunking 802.1Q

A trunk port carries packets on one or more specified VLANs. Packet that ingress on a trunk port are in the VLAN specified in its 802.1Q header, or native VLAN if the packet has no 802.1Q header. A packet that egresses through a trunk port will have an 802.1Q header if it has a nonzero VLAN ID. Any packet that ingresses on a trunk port tagged with a VLAN that the port does not trunk is dropped.

Configuration Commands

Configure an interface as a trunk port:

switchport mode trunk

Add the allowed VLANs:

switch(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan add 1,50,100

Assign a native VLAN:

switchport trunk native vlan-id 1

Show commands to validate functionality:

show interfaces switchport

Expected Results

  1. Administrators can create and enable multiple VLAN interfaces
  2. Administrators can assign the trunk VLAN interfaces

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