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vLAN setup over 4 Netgear Switches via Fibre (GS724T & GS748T)
Hi All,
Firstly, apologies for selecting the wrong model below but there are no references to the GS724 or GS748 Switches.
I am pulling my hair out trying to configure the vLANs for 4 switches that are connected via Fibre. I have tried setting PVID's on one switch and then tag the fibre ports accordingly but I am failing I am afraid. I just cannot get a connection to the router to obtain the correct IP address.
In short, all devices connected to Switch 64 needs to be tagged as vLAN 40, all devices connected to Switch 63 needs to be vLAN 30 and so on.
I have created a topology to hopefully explain easier.
Can someone tell me how I setup the vLAN ports for each switch please? Any help would be greatly appreciated :smileyhappy:
Thank you in advance.
Regards
Neil
We talk of 802.1q VALNs here, OK.
Create all VLAN on all switches, so 10 20 30 40.
All access ports are set to untagged U on the relevant VLAN, for all other VLANs unmarked, PVID same as their "switch" VLAN ID.
All trunk ports - all the fiber ports and the router port carry all four VLAN as tagged.
That's all.
What hurts my eyes is this daisy chain set-up - you really want all the traffic from these up to almost 24 workstations handled over a single GbE link? Seriously: Connect each switch with a dedicated fibre (so a dedicated GbE link) - at least - to the "core" 48 port unit.
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We talk of 802.1q VALNs here, OK.
Create all VLAN on all switches, so 10 20 30 40.
All access ports are set to untagged U on the relevant VLAN, for all other VLANs unmarked, PVID same as their "switch" VLAN ID.
All trunk ports - all the fiber ports and the router port carry all four VLAN as tagged.
That's all.
What hurts my eyes is this daisy chain set-up - you really want all the traffic from these up to almost 24 workstations handled over a single GbE link? Seriously: Connect each switch with a dedicated fibre (so a dedicated GbE link) - at least - to the "core" 48 port unit.
Thank you for your help schumaku!
I was not setting the ports to 'U' when adding the PVID. All working now :smileyhappy:
Reference 'hurting your eyes' - my IT predecessor installed 4 cabinets along the length of the building which is approximately 120 metres and decided to daisy chain the fibre instead of connecting in parrallel.
Thank you again for your help.
Regards
Neil
Neil,
I fear you already have the switches listed. But anyway, one could think about investing a little bit more into switches with 10 GbE SFP+ interfaces, permitting the fibre does allow doing (OM2 to some 80 meters, OM3 or OM4), so the bottleneck would be a little (big) bit less impact. We've just installed the first Insight Managed GC728X - when looking at the feature set (if Web managed) in the User Manual and then the two SFP+ (plus two SFP) ports, these units are a bargain! Granted, this does not solve the requirement for having some four+ SFP+ ports at the "central" location.
Good luck!Regards,
-Kurt
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