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Packet Tracer Network Simulator

By : Jesin A
Book Image

Packet Tracer Network Simulator

By: Jesin A

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Packet Tracer Network Simulator
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Configuring VLANs and Trunks

A switch breaks up collision domains and is a single broadcast domain. So how about breaking the single broadcast domains into multiple ones? VLAN (Virtual LAN) makes this possible and on a single switch we can have multiple broadcast domains. But once you create multiple VLANs on a switch, it becomes tedious to replicate the same configuration on all the other switches. This is where VTP (VLAN Trunking Protocol) comes in. So we have multiple switches with different VLANs and VTP, making management easier. But how do we make a device in one VLAN communicate with a device in another VLAN? We'll cover this in InterVLAN routing.