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Switchport mode Access/Trunk vs. General?
We're moving more workloads to the M4300 series of switches and wanted to revisit some conventions in our internal documentation. In the early days you could only use what is now named "General" ...
msi,
I inquired your concern to the higher tier of NETGEAR Support and got their feedback. According to them, General Mode is not legacy. It is just a different way of doing the configuration. Access Mode and Trunk Mode were added for those who were more familiar with Cisco and wished to configure it that way. They both will achieve the same results if you configure them correctly.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
msi,
I inquired your concern to the higher tier of NETGEAR Support and got their feedback. According to them, General Mode is not legacy. It is just a different way of doing the configuration. Access Mode and Trunk Mode were added for those who were more familiar with Cisco and wished to configure it that way. They both will achieve the same results if you configure them correctly.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi DaneA
Thanks for taking the time to check this internally, good to hear that both ways are still valid.
What makes general mode more verbose (hence harder to read) is that I have to enable ingress filtering explicitely if I want it (which I do prefer to be enabled), and the fact that VLAN 1 (as far as I understood) has to explicitely excluded if not used. I'm not specifically coming from a Cisco background, but these are some of the reasons as to why my personal preference goes to switchport mode access/trunk - as of now.
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