Cisco IOS – An interface whose trunk encapsulation is “Auto” can not be configured to “trunk” mode.

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KB ID0001167

Problem

If you try and change a ports status, to make it a trunk port, you may see this error;

Petes-Switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk
Command rejected: An interface whose trunk encapsulation is "Auto" can not be configured to "trunk" mode.

Trunk Settings

I don’t know if this is a throwback to when we had ISL trunking and 802.1q, but you need to specify the encapsulation before you can specify a trunk.

Petes-Switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk
Command rejected: An interface whose trunk encapsulation is "Auto" can not be configured to "trunk" mode.
Petes-Switch(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
Petes-Switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk
Petes-Switch(config-if)#

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Author: PeteLong

9 Comments

root2
20/06/2020

gracias
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dkash
01/09/2020

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16/09/2020

muchas gracias
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Ozkar
02/11/2020

Thank you !!
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Tosin Ayorinde
17/11/2020

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17/12/2020

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