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eesun_276598
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Dec 06, 2017

VLAN ID and tag

Hi Anyone can make it clear the concept with relation between VLAN ID and its tag in f5. In Cisco switch, vlan id is vlan number, such as vlan 10, vlan 20, vlan 30 etc. And tag is used when two switc...
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Lee_Sutcliffe
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Dec 15, 2017

The concept is the same. F5 uses the same 802.1q tag in the Ethernet frame. What is different is the nomalacture. A trunk in Cisco is a connection allowing many VLANS. A Trunk in F5 is an Etherchannel. So to configure muliple VLANS on an interface on F5, you have by default configured a Cisco trunk.