About the VLAN ports connect to the hosts, please refer to 4.5.3.1 and 4.5.3.2 examples. The following steps will focus on the VLAN Trunk port configuration.

1.Specify Port-8to be the 802.1Q VLAN Trunk port, and the Trunking port must be a Tagged port while egress. The Port-8 configuration as the following screen in Figure 4-22.

Figure 4-22The configuration of VLAN Trunk port

2.Assign the VLAN Trunk Port to be the member of each VLAN – which wants to be aggregated. At this sample, add Port-8to be VLAN 2 and VLAN 3 member port.

Figure 4-23Add VLAN Trunk port to each VLAN

3.Repeat Step 1 and 2, setup the VLAN Trunk port at the partner switch.

4.To add more VLANs to join the VLAN trunk, repeat Step 2 to assign the Trunk port to the VLANs.

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