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■ 802.1Q VLAN Tags
The figure below shows the 802.1Q VLAN tag. There are four additional octets inserted after the source MAC address. Their
presence is indicated by a value of 0x8100 in the Ether Type field. When a packet's Ether Type field is equal to 0x8100, the
packet carries the IEEE 802.1Q/802.1p tag. The tag is contained in the following two octets and consists of 3 bits of user priority,
1 bit of Canonical Format Identifier (CFI - used for encapsulating Token Ring packets so they can be carried across Ethernet
backbones), and 12 bits of VLAN ID (VID). The 3 bits of user priority are used by 802.1p. The VID is the VLAN identifier and is
used by the 802.1Q standard. Because the VID is 12 bits long, 4094 unique VLAN can be identified.
The tag is inserted into the packet header making the entire packet longer by 4 octets. All of the information originally contained
in the packet is retained.
802.1Q Tag
Preamble
The Ether Type and VLAN ID are inserted after the MAC source address, but before the original Ether Type/Length or Logical
Link Control. Because the packet is now a bit longer than it was originally, the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) must be
recalculated.
Adding an IEEE802.1Q Tag
Dest. Addr.
Src. Addr.
Dest. Addr.
Src. Addr.
TPID (Tag Protocol Identifier)
2 bytes
Destination
Source
Address
Address
6 bytes
6 bytes
Length/E. type
Data
Length/E. type
E. type
Tag
Priority
CFI
VLAN ID
User Priority
CFI
VLAN ID (VID)
3 bits
1 bits
TCI (Tag Control Information)
2 bytes
VLAN TAG
Ethernet
Type
4 bytes
2 bytes
Old CRC
Original Ethernet
Data
New CRC
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12 bits
Data
FCS
46-1517 bytes
4 bytes
New Tagged Packet
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