VLAN setup on Smart switches

fordem wrote:
Smart switches will support static routing ?!? What on earth do you mean by that ???

The fully managed L2 line can in fact do static IPv4 routing, I didn't look whether Smart Swiches wer able to - but that seems to be an additional differentiator between the two lines. (beyond not having access to local and remote CLI)

LANshake wrote:
I was looking to use the FS726T for the phones, as it has open PoE ports.

IMHO the missing Auto-VOIP should hinder you using your phones on this switch as it omits installing power bricks. Auto-VoIP means that the switch recognizes VoIP traffic and applies QoS / priorizes the traffic. Voice VLAN can automatically put traffic in a separate VLAN if it detects certain MAC-Adresses.

LANshake wrote:
From what I have read, the "IEEE 802.1Q VLAN" setting will need to be selected on the FS726TP to connect to the other VLAN switch ( VLAN tagging ?) .

The port ports connecting both switches (up- or downlinks) will need to transport all VLANs you want to share accross your switches. A 802.1Q trunk port (Cisco terminology) is a link transporting multiple VLANs using 802.1Q vlan tagging.

You'll have to to set Port VLAN ID (PVID) set to according VLAN for each access port you have an end user device connected to. This way the switch will tag incoming untagged packets (most devices don't tag) for you and thus "puts" the packets in the right VLAN.

Hope that makes sense. :)

For inter-VLAN routing you'll indeed require an extra box.