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marcel2271
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On page 75 of Wendell Odom's ICND book (7th printing june 2004) he states that "Native VLANs play a very important role from practical perspective" when using IEEE 802.1Q. Then he gives an example that you can connect a PC and an IP phone to a switch port. This would work fine because IEEE 802.1Q does not encapsulate frames in native LANs. But for me this example doesn't make sense. Why would you connect a PC and an IP phone to a trunk port of a switch? Trunk ports are used to be able to access hosts on another switch within the same VLAN. I would say that a PC and an IP phone should be connected to an access port of a switch. On those ports no ISL or IEEE 802.1Q is used.