GE -DSH-73 User Manual page 82

Chapter 5: Web-Based Management
Tagging - The act of putting 802.1Q VLAN information into the header of a packet.
Untagging - The act of stripping 802.1Q VLAN information out of the packet header.
• 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
TPID (Tag Protocol Identifier)
Destination
Preamble
Address
6 bytes
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.
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User Priority
3 bits
2 bytes
Source
VLAN TAG
Address
6 bytes 4 bytes
Length/E. type Data
E. type Tag Length/E. type
Priority CFI VLAN ID
CFI VLAN ID (VID)
1 bits 12 bits
TCI (Tag Control Information)
2 bytes
Ethernet
Data
Type
2 bytes 46-1517 bytes
Original Ethernet
Old CRC
Data New CRC
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FCS
4 bytes
New Tagged Packet