What Are Trunks For

A trunk, also known as a travel trunk, is a large cuboid container designed to hold clothes and other personal belongings. They are most commonly used for extended periods away from home, such as for boarding school, or long trips abroad.

What is the purpose of a trunk?

A network trunk is a communications line or link designed to carry multiple signals simultaneously to provide network access between two points. Trunks typically connect switching centers in a communications system. The signals can convey any type of communications data.

What are access trunks?

Each port on a Cisco switch can be configured as either an access or a trunk port. This port type can carry traffic of multiple VLANs, thus allowing you to extend VLANs across your entire network. … Frames are tagged by assigning a VLAN ID to each frame as they traverse between switches.

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