NEI Post 004 – A bit about 802.1q Trunk ports

What is a trunk port, and how do they help your network? Relevant CCNA Topics Covered: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (100-105) Section 2.0 A trunk port is a port that has the ability to switch frames on multiple vlans. Switchports assigned to only one vlan are called access ports, and can be statically assigned…

NEI Post 003 – What is a VLAN?

What is a VLAN, and how do they help your network? Relevant CCNA Topics Covered: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (100-105) Section 2.0      VLAN stands for Virtual Local Area Network. It is a term and technology that you will deal with quite often as a network engineer. A VLAN and its application within…