Trying to understand why VLANs need to be created on intermediate switches
- by Jon Reeves
I'm currently studying for the Cisco switching exam and having trouble understanding exactly how 802.1q tagging works.
Given three daisy chained switches (A,B, and C) with trunk ports between them and VLAN 101 defined on both end switches (A and C), I'm not sure why the VLAN also needs to be defined on the middle one (B)?
Note that I am not…