Cisco Systems 3750E Interaction with Other Features, Configuring a Trunk Port, Dot1q negotiate

Chapter 13 Configuring VLANs

Configuring VLAN Trunks

•Changing the Pruning-Eligible List, page 13-22

•Configuring the Native VLAN for Untagged Traffic, page 13-23

Note By default, an interface is in Layer 2 mode. The default mode for Layer 2 interfaces is switchport mode dynamic auto. If the neighboring interface supports trunking and is configured to allow trunking, the link is a Layer 2 trunk or, if the interface is in Layer 3 mode, it becomes a Layer 2 trunk when you enter the switchport interface configuration command. By default, trunks negotiate encapsulation. If the neighboring interface supports ISL and IEEE 802.1Q encapsulation and both interfaces are set to negotiate the encapsulation type, the trunk uses ISL encapsulation.

Interaction with Other Features

Trunking interacts with other features in these ways:

•A trunk port cannot be a secure port.

•A trunk port cannot be a tunnel port.

•Trunk ports can be grouped into EtherChannel port groups, but all trunks in the group must have the same configuration. When a group is first created, all ports follow the parameters set for the first port to be added to the group. If you change the configuration of one of these parameters, the switch propagates the setting you entered to all ports in the group:

–allowed-VLAN list.

–STP port priority for each VLAN.

–STP Port Fast setting.

–trunk status: if one port in a port group ceases to be a trunk, all ports cease to be trunks.

•We recommend that you configure no more than 24 trunk ports in PVST mode and no more than 40 trunk ports in MST mode.

•If you try to enable IEEE 802.1x on a trunk port, an error message appears, and IEEE 802.1x is not enabled. If you try to change the mode of an IEEE 802.1x-enabled port to trunk, the port mode is not changed.

•A port in dynamic mode can negotiate with its neighbor to become a trunk port. If you try to enable IEEE 802.1x on a dynamic port, an error message appears, and IEEE 802.1x is not enabled. If you try to change the mode of an IEEE 802.1x-enabled port to dynamic, the port mode is not changed.

Configuring a Trunk Port

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure a port as a trunk port:

	Command		Purpose
Step 1	configure terminal		Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2	interface interface-id		Specify the port to be configured for trunking, and enter interface
			configuration mode.
Step 3	switchport trunk encapsulation {isl		Configure the port to support ISL or IEEE 802.1Q encapsulation or to
	dot1q negotiate}		negotiate (the default) with the neighboring interface for encapsulation
			type.
			You must configure each end of the link with the same encapsulation type.
		Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Switch Software Configuration Guide
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