Dell force10 mxl 10/40gbe create trunk port

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I have this task. I need to find the way how to configure a trunk in this switch for 3 VLANS 200,201 and 1(native) . I already read the guide. In this switches you need to activate the vlan and then change the port to switchport (layer 2) the you configure it the port inside the vlan.

interface vlan 200

tagged gi 0/3

exit

and that interface is already a trunk for vlan 200. I did the same with vlan 201 but with vlan 1 I dont have that option.

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I dont have the untagged and tagged options. Also I dont see the ip routing option to alloq Vlan communication. How can I do it in this switch?

Best Answer

VLAN 1 is the native VLAN, which means its traffic is untagged. That is fine for a trunk because it will be the only VLAN with untagged traffic.

You tag traffic on trunks so that the other end of the trunk can separate which frames belong to which VLANs. Having a single untagged (native) VLAN will work with this. It is only if you have multiple untagged VLANs on a trunk where you couldn't separate the frames into VLANs.

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