Converged vs Trunk

[Jean-Francois Gagnon]

Hi!

I recently saw that you can configure an interface on a switch as either Access, trunk or Converged.

I cannot find any information of what would be the difference between Trunk and Converged modes ?

If anyone can explained it to me briefly that would be awesome!

Thanks for all!

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello Jean-Francois,

converged mode looks like related to Fiber Channel over Ethernet integration

see

http://www.excitingip.com/1870/what-is-a-converged-network-adapter-cna/

I see this mode converged in HP, Brocade or Dell documentation.

see

http://www.manualowl.com/m/Dell/PowerEdge-M620/Manual/269882?page=70

I'm not sure this converged mode is named the same in Cisco network devices.

Are you using Nexus switches?

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[Jean-Francois Gagnon]

Not yet.

I saw this in a Dell and Brocade manual.

So I was wondering what is the big difference between the 2. What does it do differently from a trunk mode