04-20-2008 09:17 PM - edited 03-05-2019 10:30 PM
Why the concept of native VLAN brought into the IEEE 802.1q VLAN identification method? It is not there in the ISL. What is the actual requirement of native VLAN.
04-20-2008 09:39 PM
Native vlan is used for sending control information like STP, PagP,DTP, VTP etc. Bcoz cisco had default vlan of 1, these protocols were always allowed on the trunks.
Later with dot1q, cisco control protocols were still using vlan1. If a native vlan was changed on the switch, the cisco control protocols still worked on vlan 1. Thus they were tagged, while ieee control protocols like LAcp, mst will be sent untagged.
For a trunk to work, the native vlans on both sides of the trunk has to be same. frames of native vlan i.e. control infor foes untagged over trunk.
04-20-2008 10:00 PM
thanks for your reply. As per my understanding, If you don't define any native VLAN in 802.1q it will by default take VLAN 1 as native then what is the significance of defining native VLAN on 802.1q?
04-20-2008 10:08 PM
you may refer this link for further understanding.
04-21-2008 08:40 AM
The reason that - by default - the native vlan is untagged is for backwards compatibility with non-802.1q devices; namely switches. Exchanging STP with these non compatible devices was important enough to the working group that the untagged native vlan was put into the spec. Note that you *can* disable sending untagged frames on .1q trunks with the "vlan dot1q tag native" global config command. All of the standard L2 control protocols (including LACP) will still work. And why wouldn't they? After all, they work with ISL and it has no concept of a native vlan.
04-21-2008 09:40 PM
Hi, thats an interesting thing u mentioned. "Tagging a native VLAN". why wud tht be required in any environment.
On the other part, yes you are right that L2 control protocols still work but this time they'll go tagged. For cisco switches there was no concept of native vlan but vlan 1 was default & all cisco control protocol always travelled across vlan1 even in mixed environment.
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