diff --git a/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_trunk.c b/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_trunk.c
index 617993fd4..84ad22052 100644
--- a/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_trunk.c
+++ b/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_trunk.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ int e1_trunk_nr_from_epname(const char *epname)
 
 	errno = 0;
 	trunk_nr = strtoul(epname + prefix_len, &str_trunk_nr_end, 10);
-	if (errno == ERANGE || trunk_nr > 64 || trunk_nr == 0
+	if (errno == ERANGE || trunk_nr > 64
 	    || epname + prefix_len == str_trunk_nr_end
 	    || str_trunk_nr_end[0] != '/')
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ struct mgcp_trunk *mgcp_trunk_by_name(const struct mgcp_config *cfg, const char
 	}
 
 	trunk_nr = e1_trunk_nr_from_epname(epname);
-	if (trunk_nr > 0)
+	if (trunk_nr >= 0)
 		return mgcp_trunk_by_num(cfg, MGCP_TRUNK_E1, trunk_nr);
 
 	/* Earlier versions of osmo-mgw were accepting endpoint names
diff --git a/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_vty.c b/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_vty.c
index d2d4b23a5..22863c708 100644
--- a/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_vty.c
+++ b/src/libosmo-mgcp/mgcp_vty.c
@@ -866,16 +866,11 @@ ALIAS_DEPRECATED(cfg_mgcp_agent_addr, cfg_mgcp_agent_addr_cmd_old,
 		 "IPv4 Address of the callagent\n")
 
 DEFUN(cfg_mgcp_trunk, cfg_mgcp_trunk_cmd,
-      "trunk <1-64>", "Configure a SS7 trunk\n" "Trunk Nr\n")
+      "trunk <0-64>", "Configure a SS7 trunk\n" "Trunk Nr\n")
 {
 	struct mgcp_trunk *trunk;
 	int index = atoi(argv[0]);
 
-	/* Due to historical reasons, the trunk id number 0 is reserved for the
-	 * virtual trunk. This trunk is configured with separate VTY
-	 * parameters, so we restrict the access to trunks with id numbers
-	 * greater than 0. */
-
 	trunk = mgcp_trunk_by_num(g_cfg, MGCP_TRUNK_E1, index);
 	if (!trunk) {
 		trunk = mgcp_trunk_alloc(g_cfg, MGCP_TRUNK_E1, index);