[c-nsp] VLAN Trunking from Netgear GS748T to Catalyst 1924EN

[Steve Snodgrass]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:10:43AM +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> 	We are putting Netgear GS748Ts on the edge of the network and slowly
> working our way into the core. so at present we have a need of having VLAN's
> on the above NetGear model going into a Trunk port on a 1924.

This will not work.  The Cat1900 is ancient and only supports ISL trunk
encapsulation.  I know nothing about the Netgear but I'm sure it only
supports 802.1q trunk encapsulation, so you are out of luck.

> 	Apparently the people who designed the netgears smoke crack and
> they've called 'Trunking' something we call Ether Channelling (combining
> more than 1 physical link into a large virtual link) in the Cisco world.
> took me a week to figure that out.

They are not on crack, link aggregation is (unfortunately) also referred
to as trunking - it's ambiguous terminology.

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