Publication date: Aug., 2014
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It identifies the VLAN membership by layer 3 protocol types, for example
IPX, Appletalk, IP, etc.
Other VLAN technologies not mentioned above are MAC-based VLAN, IP-
based VLAN and so on.
Terminology
Tagged Frame:
A frame, carrying a tag field following the source MAC address, is four bytes
long and contains VLAN protocol ID and tag control information composed of user
priority, Canonical Format Indicator (CFI) and optional VLAN identifier (VID).
Normally, the maximal length of a tagged frame is 1522 bytes.
802.1Q VLAN-tagged Ethernet frame
6 6 2 2 2
DA SA
VLAN Protocol
ID
Tag Control
Information
Length
/Type
VLAN Protocol ID =
0x8100
User Priority
CFI
VLAN identifier
Fig.3-10 Tag Format
VLAN Protocol ID: 8100 is reserved for VLAN-tagged frame.
User Priority: 3 bits long. User priority is defined to 7 – 0. 0 is the lowest
priority.
CFI: Canonical Format Indicator. 1 bit long. It is used to encapsulate a
token ring packet to let it travel across the Ethernet. Usually, it is
set to 0.
VLAN ID: 12 bits long. 0 means no VLAN ID is present. 1 means default VLAN,
4095 reserved.
VLAN-tagged frame:
An Ethernet frame, carrying VLAN tag field, contains VLAN identification
without the value of 0 and 4095, and priority information.
Priority-tagged frame:
An Ethernet frame, carrying VLAN tag field, contains VLANidentificationwith
the value of 0 and priority information.
Untagged frame:
An Ethernet frame carries no VLAN tag information.
VLAN Identifier: