VLAN problems

Tom Judge tom at tomjudge.com
Wed Jan 30 03:21:41 PST 2008


Andrei Kolu wrote:
>> Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>>>   This server is an Dell Power Edge 1950, QuadCore 2.83, 2Gb Ram, one
>>> bce gigabit interface connected to a gigabit port of a Cisco 4500 in
>>> trunk mode.
> 
> Why you are using trunk mode? IIRC then "trunk" is used only between Cisco 
> switches and routers and your server should be in "access" mode.


Trunk mode is perfectly valid in this configuration.  Access mode afaik 
only allows the port to be configured into 1 untagged vlan, or that is 
how it is on the dell PowerConnect's we have, it may be different on 
cisco.

Tom


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