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Switch advice please
Hello, Having verified that my Virgin Media 'Super Hub' is not the best as a switch, I was thinking of getting a decent one which I may use for some years when/if my network expands. I like the ide...
Alright just read trunk could be used for link aggregation on english version of wikipedia, french version was less complete (as often for technology).
"A trunk port can refer a port that sends and receives tagged frames on all VLANs, except the native VLAN, if one is configured. The term trunk may also be used to refer to a connection using link aggregation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1Q
I only used trunk port as the opposite of the access port in Cisco devices (switchport mode (access/trunk)). So to me a trunk port was something that helped in Vlan implementation with multiple switches and had nothing to do with link aggregation which is why I didn't see the link between 802.3AD and Trunking.
"A trunk port can refer a port that sends and receives tagged frames on all VLANs, except the native VLAN, if one is configured. The term trunk may also be used to refer to a connection using link aggregation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1Q
I only used trunk port as the opposite of the access port in Cisco devices (switchport mode (access/trunk)). So to me a trunk port was something that helped in Vlan implementation with multiple switches and had nothing to do with link aggregation which is why I didn't see the link between 802.3AD and Trunking.
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