Switching

Describing issues in a poorly designed network:

Failure domains
Broadcast domains
Large amount of unknown MAC unicast traffic
Multicast traffic on ports where not intended
Difficulty in management and support
Possible security vulnerabilities

Grouping business functions into VLANs:

Benefits of hierarchical addressing:

Ease of management and troubleshooting

Minimizing of errors
Reduced number of routing table entries

VLANS:
End-to-End Vlans:
This term refers to a single VLAN that is associated with switch ports that are widely
dispersed throughout an enterprise network. Traffic for this VLAN is carried
throughout the network.

Configuring VLANS:
Vlan 101
Switchport mode access
Switchport access vlan 101

Verifying VLANS:

Sh interface
Sh vlan

Configuring a trunk:

Switchport trunk
Switchport mode
Switchport nonnegotaite