Hi,
I inhireted a number of Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls in my new job. I was reveiwing the config file of the switches and ran across a few Interfaces that were created as Trunk ports(802.1q) but also assiged two VLANs as Native VLANs. I got confused since my understanding about Trunk ports is that they would allow the passing of ALL VLANs. My question is why was or what is the purpose of assigning the Trunk Port the Native VLANs?
Much appreciated.
~sK
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interface GigabitEthernet2/0/41
switchport access vlan 10
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 2
switchport mode trunk
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