VLAN Header Tag Stripping

Learn the high-level process and how a packet appears before and after VLAN tag stripping.

The VLAN tag is the first tag after MAC-SA and is 4 bytes long. The following figure shows the structure and position of the VLAN header in a frame and its appearance after configuring a policy to strip VLAN headers.

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VLAN tag before and after tag stripping
VLAN tag before and after tag stripping