The original frame is forwarded to the destination port 4 based on the SAT of Switch 2. The packet shown in Figure provides detail on this modification. In this particular case, the trunking protocol that has been used is IEEE In this case, the two computers communicating are on VLAN 2. The binary value of is shown. However, because this is a change to the actual frame, the Cyclical Redundancy Check CRC at the end of the Ethernet frame must be recalculated. Without a trunk, the nodes will probably all be on the same VLAN which can lead to the problems noted earlier.
Trunks and VLANs are a vital part of standard topologies. Of the two, IEEE The IEEE As a reminder, IEEE Switch vendors adhere to both of these standards and then add enhancements such as management. When using IEEE Per the Therefore, frame is actually changed. So, the Ethernet type, which indicates the kind of encapsulated data, must also change. As an example, IP packets have an Ethertype value of but when running over a trunk it is changed to as shown in Figure There are three ways that this information can be structured but those used in token ring and FDDI networks will not be covered here.
The 2-byte hexadecimal TCI from Figure is 20 Used in quality of service implementations, also called class of service. This is a three bit field with values ranging from 0 to 7. The default value is 0 though vendors recommend higher values for certain types of traffic. For example, VoIP traffic is typically set to binary base 5. Figure depicts a slightly elevated priority of 2. Figure depicts prioritized traffic from another network.
In this case, the priority is set to 7. This single bit field was used to indicate bit orders or flags for routing information associated with legacy protocols such as token ring and FDDI. Today, almost all switching is Ethernet. So, the field is almost never used and the value is typically 0.
This corresponds to VLAN in base 10 numbers. As this is an older Cisco proprietary protocol, not much time will be spent on its description. Figure shows an ISL tagged frame and illustrates a different approach to tagging.
IEEE This also forces a recalculation of the frame CRC. ISL prepends the tag. The ISL header is also considerably larger than the While a particular VLAN may extend well beyond a single switch and may exist throughout much of a topology, it is not necessary to have it persist on every switch.
The benefits include a reduction in trunk line traffic and potential security improvement through this pruning capability, especially with static topologies.
Switch 1 prunes VLAN 3 traffic prevents passage out its trunk port. Regardless of vendor, it is always a good idea to examine the trunking configuration and determine the best approach for tagged frames and untagged frames and pruning. Is SNMP or some other management protocol running?
How will you get to all of the nodes? Are these nodes servers? End nodes? Do the nodes represent vital company resources? Are these public facing machines? In addition to these general questions, there are other good practices to follow that will help reduce exposure to security risk and protect vital network resources.
Wireless should be in its own VLAN. Since wireless is a shared media, all broadcast and much of the multicast traffic coming from the switch will be shared as well. In addition, any flooded unicast traffic will be seen by all wireless nodes. Creating a VLAN for wireless nodes narrows the traffic that they can see. In addition, a potential attack via wireless will have a boundary to cross before reaching other portions of the network.
This is as much for quality of service as it is for protection. Anytime real time voice traffic has to compete for bandwidth, there is the potential for performance degradation. Security concerns are to some extent relieved by the VLANs as well.
Tools such as Wireshark can not only capture but decode and play voice traffic so it is important to keep voice traffic separated wherever possible. Other important network devices such as servers or even users of sensitive data should be placed in their own VLANs. In addition to the reasons already stated, many vendors have features that allow the creation of VLAN specific security and QoS policies. This chapter has discussed the need to isolate traffic. Organizations need not forward data to every single port because this is inefficient and represents a security risk due to potential eavesdroppers.
There are several configuration items that should be part of any VLAN deployment checklist. One of the biggest challenges associated with deploying a network device is understanding default behavior. Switches and routers are no different, particularly as the number of features increases.
One of these items is the default configuration mode of the ports on the switch. Most switch ports will wind up connected to computers and so will act as access ports. What is not obvious is that on many devices, the default configuration is not access , but dynamic.
This means that the port is willing to negotiate the mode of operation. If two switches are connected together, and one switch is configured with a trunk port, it is often the case that it will generate dynamic trunking protocol messages. Once received, this message may cause the second switch to convert its port to a trunk automatically. This is shown in Figure Initially this auto-configuration sounds convenient but what is to stop an attacker from generating the same message and converting a port in the same way?
In addition to allowing the attacker to learn more about the network, it also means that the attacker may be able to generate tagged frames that will be delivered over the entire network.
Whenever possible, dynamic configuration should be turned off. In addition to pruning for proper VLAN boundaries and the default configurations of the ports, it may be prudent to add a couple of additional configuration changes.
Anyone connecting to a port in this VLAN will be isolated. In addition, many vendors offer security enhancements to ports such as authorized MAC addresses and restricting the number of MAC addresses allowed. Natural Language Processing.
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