Friday, December 7, 2018

Giving a "VLAN" an IP address vs SVIs

Hello good people of networking,

I often hear engineers talk about giving a "VLAN an IP address." Personally I find this terminology to be extremely confusing. It's my understanding that you can actually give an SVI an IP address, which is really an L3 router/gateway. The fact that a given SVI is routing traffic between one or more VLANs is what leads to the unfortunate phrase I reference above.

Is my understanding correct, or am I off?



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