Hi Ken,

  But that begs the question, when i state that native vlan should be 
250 on a certain trunk, but i dont allow that on the trunk (switchport 
trunk allow vlan 200), to allow only another vlan (200), how does cdp 
function? (lab shows that it still finds neighbor devices).

Kim

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi Kim,
> CDP along with VTP & STP was transported by vlan 1. Vlan 1 need not
> necessary be the native vlan.
>
> Kengyong
> CCIE #24979
>
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>>   I have a question regarding the native vlan in dot1q. Frames comming
>> from the vlan that is choosen as the native vlan is not tagged across
>> the trunk. I can manually set the native vlan to be, say 200. I can then
>> also say that i only want to allow vlan 250 to cross the trunk. I was
>> under the impression that stuff like CDP used the native vlan across
>> trunks, but if it is manually pruned (by not allowing it), why does it
>> still work?
>>
>>   Am I wrong in that CDP does not use the native vlan?
>>
>>   What I was trying to do was to follow Cisco's guidelines as to not use
>> the native vlan 1. However, since VTP cant prune vlan 1, I was doing it
>> manually and came up with this thought...
>>
>>   Hopefully someone can clear it up for me.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Kim Pedersen
>>
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