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Trunking on a switch 2
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This is my understanding, so if I'm wrong, Anyone should feel free to correct me.
You have many Vlans on your switched enviroment. Since each link to another switch takes up one full port(and they are only getting spartic use). Trunking will make them all go over one link.
You can also prune incase you don't want R&D traffic going over links that the secretaries use and what not.
You have many Vlans on your switched enviroment. Since each link to another switch takes up one full port(and they are only getting spartic use). Trunking will make them all go over one link.
You can also prune incase you don't want R&D traffic going over links that the secretaries use and what not.
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Yes Twinmoon is correct. Trunking is just a special configuraton on an interface that lets Vlans span across the entire network, instead of just one switch. The "trunked" interface that connects to another network device is allowed to pass traffic for multiple Vlans, instead of just 1 Vlan in a normal interface on a switch. Does that make sense? Let me know.
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