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ISL vs ethernet trunking What is the difference between ISL (inter switch link) on Fiber Channel and trunk links on Ethernet switching? Are they essentially the same thing?

ISL on Fiber Channel networks has nothing to do with the _ISL trunking protocol_ known on Ethernet networks. In Fiber Channel networks, it is simply a way to describe the connection between two Fiber Channel switches.

In Ethernet networks it's a trunking protocol tagging frames with the appropriate VLAN information (as 802.1Q does, which is actually the standard). ISL is a Cisco proprietary trunking protocol pre-dating 802.1Q; it's deprecated and is already removed from the newest switches.

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