When working with VLANs, you will have to change the ports from their default setting of dynamic auto to either trunk and voice, or access ports. Let's define each of the ports:
- Trunk ports: This term was forged from the world of telecommunications, which carried multiple telephone communications at the same time. It only seemed proper to call point-to-point communications between switches or switches to routers trunks, since they carry multiple VLANs at the same time. Trunk ports can be 100, 1,000, or 10,000 Mbps and the range of VLANs that they carry is from 1 to 4,094.
- Voice access ports: Another type of access port, used for IP telephony, one port can have both data and voice, but you must configure the port deliberately for both data and voice. Doing this will allow you to use your PC and phone on the same port. The configuration would look something...