Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 09:50:43 -0700
From: Michele.Wright@xylan.com (Michele Wright)
Subject: Re[2]: VLAN Questions/Suggestions
To: p8021@hepnrc.hep.net, Witz1961@aol.com, JR Rivers <jrrivers@cisco.com>


>  What is the usage of this "default" VLAN???  How is it different from
>  the "untagged" VLAN that is implied by frames without the VLAN type
>  field?
>  
>  JR

  It's not different.  I don't believe we clearly distinguished between 
  cases when frames are tagged and when frames are not tagged.  We did 
  talk about tagging across backbones and for some VLANs tagging may be 
  end to end. The default VLAN would/could be for untagged frames 
  passing through or for the forwarding of the first frame until a VLAN 
  determination is made. 
     
  There are classes of frames, such as the get nearest server frame that 
  Novell clients generate, that may not be easily placed into a VLAN.  
  The default VLAN can be used to forward these frames until the Novell 
  server responds with a network address.

[attached:  P802.1-96/064 and -96/065 (see d96/d96n064.txt and
 d96/d96n065.txt) in addition to P802.1-96/066, quoted above]