ā09-09-2010 12:22 AM - edited ā03-06-2019 12:53 PM
Hi all,
i know 802.1q trunking supports native lan but need to make sure that if ISL trunking supports native vlan or not?
thanks
mahesh
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ā09-09-2010 01:26 AM
Hello Mahesh,
ISL has no native vlan concept because it places the whole ethernet frame in the payload of an ISL frame
native Vlan is an 802.1Q specfic feature/concept
Hope to help
Giuseppe
ā09-09-2010 01:55 AM
Mahesh
Just to add to Giuseppe's post -
ISL is Cisco proprietary unlike 802.1q. Because of this ISL does not need a native vlan because by definition you would need to have an all cisco network if you wanted to run ISL on your switches. So every switch would be capable of supporting PVST (Per vlan spanning tree). PVST is Cisco proprietary as well.
802.1q is an IEEE standard and because of this it needs to interoperate with switches that may not run PVST and hence the need for the native vlan ie. the vlan that is not tagged on a trunk link.
Jon
ā09-09-2010 01:26 AM
Hello Mahesh,
ISL has no native vlan concept because it places the whole ethernet frame in the payload of an ISL frame
native Vlan is an 802.1Q specfic feature/concept
Hope to help
Giuseppe
ā09-10-2010 02:08 AM
Hi Jon and guislar,
Many thanks for reply
Mahesh
ā09-09-2010 01:55 AM
Mahesh
Just to add to Giuseppe's post -
ISL is Cisco proprietary unlike 802.1q. Because of this ISL does not need a native vlan because by definition you would need to have an all cisco network if you wanted to run ISL on your switches. So every switch would be capable of supporting PVST (Per vlan spanning tree). PVST is Cisco proprietary as well.
802.1q is an IEEE standard and because of this it needs to interoperate with switches that may not run PVST and hence the need for the native vlan ie. the vlan that is not tagged on a trunk link.
Jon
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