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Question
802.1Q frames or packets?
I'm reading the Cisco official cert guide for 350-401 after
I went through the errata and corrected all the mistakes
throughout the entire book. I'm looking at chapter one
where there is the topic of 802.1Q and VLANs.
There is a figure 1-4 displays the VLAN packet structure
which has a source/destination MAC address, other
802.1Q fields and then a source and destination IP. Then I
re-read that this is a figure of a VLAN packet. I thought
VLANs were layer two, which would be frames working off
MAC addresses and NOT IP addresses. Did I miss
something? I'm trying to recertify and this is the first I've
seen of the new exams.
By ******
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My Answer
The vlan “interface” which operates at layer 3 and
provides services for the layer 2 operation.
The fundamental purpose of vlan is to limit size of broadcast domain in L2.
Yes you are correct VLAN is inherently a frame at L2.
However the VLAN interface which provides routing services to The VLAN is L3. Subsequently there’s a IP packet payload encapsulated in that sense…I hope that makes sense
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