Introduction to VLANs

Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow network administrators to subdivide a physical network

into separate logical broadcast domains. On a standard Layer 2 network.

 A VLAN is a single broadcast domain which means that if a user in the research VLAN
would send a broadcast frame only users in the same VLAN will receive it.
 Users are only able to communicate within the same VLAN

Trunk port
by using trunks we can make sure all VLAN traffic can be sent between the switches
There are two trunking protocols:

 802.1Q: This is the most common trunking protocol. It’s a standard and supported by
many vendors.
 ISL: This is the Cisco trunking protocol. Not all switches support it.

Native Vlan
The native VLAN is the only VLAN which is not tagged in a trunk, in other
words, native VLANframes are transmitted unchanged. Per default thenative
VLAN is VLAN 1 but you can change that.

InterVLAN Routing
In this lesson we are going to take a look at routing between VLANs. When we want
communication between different VLANs we’ll need a device that can do routing. We could
use an external router but it’s also possible to use a multilayer switch (aka layer 3
switches).