06-29-2005 10:49 AM - edited 03-02-2019 11:14 PM
I have several buildings with fiber transceivers between them, can I implement 802.1q trunks between my catalyst 3550s? Currently these are access ports. There are no gbics slots available to use the WS-G5484, thus I am using the transceivers.
06-29-2005 10:51 AM
Yes.. you should be fine.
07-02-2005 08:31 PM
Yes, I currently do the same with different model transcievers.
07-02-2005 09:53 PM
Transceivers won't care.
All they're doing is converting the pulses from one medium to another ... they don't care what the pulses are doing, how many there are, or what the sequence is.
A straight-up hub wouldn't care either, it's just repeating whatever comes in.
A switch will (usually) care. Switches, at some point, will buffer the incoming traffic to some degree. If the buffers aren't large enough to handle the extra overhead of the dot1q (or ISL for that matter), then the frame would be dropped and flagged as a 'giant.'
FWIW
Scott
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