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Managing multiple GS324TP Switches
I want to know the best way to configure multiple Netgear managed switches on the same network in the same physical location. I started with a firewall and a Netgear managed switch. The managed ...
T_Baker wrote:
My network is 192.160.150.x. It has 2 VLANS that are setup on the firewall (192.160.151.x and 192.160.152.x).
Reads like three VLAN, or say two VLAN plus the basic IP subnet.
How can you bring these other VLANs from the firewall to the switches? Usually, you run a trunk, either with all three VLANs tagged, or one flat untagged plus two tagged.
Let's name these VLAN 150, VLAN 151 and 152 for simplicity. From this, you have all three VLANs on the switches, and you can configure select access ports for VLAN 150, PVID 150, [U]ntagged; others for VLAN 151, PVID 151, [U]ntagged; and even more others VLAN 152, PVID 152, [U]ntagged (but no other VLAN associations).
While writing, it hits my eyes that you are using 192.160.150.x, 192.160.151.x, and 192.160.152.x. Is this a typo, or intentionally not using the RFC1918 IP space like 192.168.150-x/24, 192.168.151.x/24, and 192.168.152.x/24?
Clarifications for schumaku:
- I had a typo. The IPs start with 192.168.
- The Firewall is configured as:
- X0 LAN 192.168.150.1 255.255.255.0 1Gbps Full Duplex Default LAN
- X0:V151 VPN#1 192.168.151.1 255.255.255.0 VLAN Sub-Interface Equipment
- X0:V152 VPN#2 192.168.152.2 255.255.255.0 VLAN Sub-Interface IoT Devices
- Currently, Port 1 of the first switch is plugged into the X0 interface of the firewall
- Currently, Port 2 of the first switch is plugged into Port 1 of the second switch
- Currently, Port 3 of the first switch is plugged into Port 1 of the third switch
- V151 has computers that need to talk with one another but not the WAN. A handful of LAN terminals need to remotely access 5 of the computers on V151 in order to check logs and access reports.
- V152 has internet-connected devices that talk to one another and to WAN. They have firmware that does not get updated. I don't want them talking to X0 and X0:V151.
Currently, all the wired connections go to patch panels and are randomly plugged into one of the three switches and all of the switches are in their default configurations. I want to rectify this.
The "add switch" feature of my firewall only checks for switches of a single brand (not netgear), so I can't use the firewall interface to setup tagged and untagged ports on each of the switches.
I do not want to console log into each of the switches separately. I'm hoping there is a program that I could use to configure all of the Netgear switches from a single interface.
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