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Question about management vlan

the-lebowski
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If I wanted a 99% isolated switch but would still like to access it via my management vlan what is the best way to do that?  A trunk that only allows my management vlan?

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Jon Marshall
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If you only want to allow one vlan on the trunk then don't use a trunk, just use an access port that is allocated to the same vlan at both ends. You don't have to use a trunk for management, it's just that normally you want to pass at least 2 vlans on the uplink, one for data and one for management. But if you are only passing management traffic like i say, just use an access port.

Jon

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Jon Marshall
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If you only want to allow one vlan on the trunk then don't use a trunk, just use an access port that is allocated to the same vlan at both ends. You don't have to use a trunk for management, it's just that normally you want to pass at least 2 vlans on the uplink, one for data and one for management. But if you are only passing management traffic like i say, just use an access port.

Jon

Thanks John.

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