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How does a switch forward traffic from a trunk port to appropriate VLAN ?

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denielshakespeare5 author asked 8 years ago
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jamessmith05 author answered 8 years ago

Trunk links are used for carrying multiple vlan traffic. Every packet which is sent over a
trunk port would have the appropriate VLAN ID inserted in the frame. The switch would

look into the VLAN ID and forward the packet to the appropriate VLAN based on this

information.

Refer the below diagram for the following questions (Cisco router is used)

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