Layer 3 switches can process data packets faster than routers since data is transferred at wire speed. A general recommendation is to make use of a Layer 3 switch that can route traffic between other switches without needing a router for inter-VLAN communication. The router on a stick configuration could actually become a bottleneck if you have high bandwidth requirements between VLANs since the network traffic must be sent to the router on a single ethernet interface in order to forward the data to the other VLANs on the same switch.Р”Р‡or example, if you are using a 1 gigabit switch and a router with 1 gigabit ports but are pushing more than 1 gigabit of data between your various network devices, you will encounter a bottleneck with this network configuration.

After all, one purpose of creating VLAN is to help facilitate improved security in the network.Р”Р‡or a home network, this configuration is more than adequate to provide separate VLAN networks especially if you do not need to have a large amount of communication between the VLANs. This allows the devices in different VLANs to communicate with each other. The Router on a Stick setup allows the EdgeRouter to route traffic between VLANs by associating an Ethernet interface with multiple VLAN IDs. This traffic is usually controlled via firewall rules to restrict certain traffic. The EdgeRouter VLAN interfaces and firewall policies will be used to route and limit the traffic between VLAN10 and VLAN20. If the native vlan is changed on a trunk link between connected switches, it must be the same on both switches. The router is responsible for inter-VLAN routing so that network traffic may flow from one VLAN to another. switch (config-if) switchport trunk native vlan 999 There is the global command for a switch vlan dot1q tag native to ensure the native vlan is always tagged on every trunk on switch, this has nothing to do with our Router On a Stick. The network switch may be configured to have two or more VLANs to logically partition the network. A РІР‚Сљrouter on a stickРІР‚Сњ (aka РІР‚Сљone-armed routerРІР‚Сњ) is a network configuration in which a single network switch is connected to a single LAN interface on a router.

Router on a stick switch port config