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More commonly, however, routing services are provided by an adjacent router, as
shown in Figure 5-2
, where frames originating on the Marketing VLAN and
destined for the Sales VLAN are switched across a dedicated port by the VLAN
device to the attached router. The router, operating at layer 3, redirects the frame
across another dedicated port to the VLAN device, which in turns switches the
frame at layer 2 to the recipient VLAN.
The configuration illustrated in Figure 5-2
is inefficient for both the router and the
VLAN device, because it requires a dedicated port for each VLAN. In network
topologies that support multiple VLANs, the costs for dedicated ports may be
prohibitive.
Figure 5-2. Connecting VLANs Using a Router
VLAN
device
SN0020A
Router
Marketing
IP VLAN
Engineering
IP VLAN
Sales
IP VLAN
Dedicated VLAN-specific
untagged ports
Traffic flow
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