On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 06:44:33AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Marc Haber wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:34:48AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> >>On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Mirko Parthey wrote:
> >>>- Their ports can only be configured to carry either a single untagged
> >>> vlan, or a number of tagged vlans, but not both simultaneously.
> >>
> >>I'll argue that doing both is a bad idea in any case (just from the
> >>confusion point of view :-)
> >
> >I usually configure the VLAN used to manage the device as "untagged"
> >so that I can plug my notebook into a trunk port and manage the
> >device. This has proven extremely handy in outage situations where the
> >normal management methods don't work.
> 
> it's handy, but it's not that hard to create a VLAN on your laptop
> interface.

I am not talking about myself. I can configure VLANS with my hands
tied behind behind my back, but I also have been forced to talk not-so
savvy remote hands people through that kind of configuration on the
phone in the middle of the night with their windows notebooks.

;-)

Greetings
Marc

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