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GS308Ev4, GS305E - Help with uplinks/downlinks
Could I please have some help or confirmation that I have these setup correctly? I'm weary that they are because I sometimes have trouble connecting to the admin interfaces on these switches. I've ...
I made the change as suggested to one of the 305's and soft rebooted it. When it came back, the management interface was no longer on the ip address range for LAN 1. I pulled the power, put it back, same thing. I ended up finding it on the address range for LAN 11. How does that happen? I really didn't know what to do, so I soft rebooted it again, and now it's back where it should be!?
Here's the only change I made, making LAN 1 untagged on port 1 that leads back to the router:
Prior to, port 1 here was T.
And here's what the other vlans look like on this guy:
Port 2 has an AP plugged into it that runs SSIDs for 1, 11, 12 but not 31.
Here's the only change I made, making LAN 1 untagged on port 1 that leads back to the router:
Prior to, port 1 here was T.
And the other end of the trunk on the router side, is als an [U]ntagged port for VLAN 1?
Thanks for continuing to reply and try to help. So this guy is wired straight into the Peplink port 4. That guy is configured like this:
Here's the drop down choices:
Port type is only Access or Trunk.
And Peplinks docs say in order to pass multiple vlans, it needs to be trunk. If I set it to trunk, but only chose the UTLAN (Peplink's version of Untagged), would it still pass the traffic of the other 4 vlans? What do think I should do here?
So this guy is wired straight into the Peplink port 4
If I set it to trunk, but only chose the UTLAN (Peplink's version of Untagged), would it still pass the traffic of the other 4 vlans? What do think I should do here?
Ports 1,3, and 4 on your diagram are all trunks (carrying more than one vlan), and all should be tagged. Otherwise the downstream switches can't separate out the vlans.
Port 2 only carries one vlan, so it could be untagged if you want. Though personally I'd also set it up as a trunk (and also set up port 1 of the downstream switch as a trunk). As that would make it a bit easier to add a different vlan to that segment of the network later on.
Tivos are now separate. Iot is separate
I get that they are on separate VLANs. But if you are only using one subnet, they probably aren't isolated, as I think the router will route across VLANs. That is easy to test, you can just try pinging a device on another VLAN from one of your PCs.
Ports 1,3, and 4 on your diagram are all trunks (carrying more than one vlan), and all should be tagged. Otherwise the downstream switches can't separate out the vlans.
People often forget, even an untagged (access) port can carry a VLAN - just untagged. The problem is that these switches don't have a managed core where I've can define a management VLAN, so that VLAN must come to these switches mandatory as untagged.
If that funny Peplink router does not allow one VLAN untagged, plus some VLANs as tagged - oh well, complain there, not with Netgear.
Wrong router or wrong Netgear switch model line chosen I'm afraid. Invest a little bit more into Netgear GSxxxxT models instead.
wired straight into the Peplink port 4. That guy is configured like this:
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So it looks like there -is- one (V)LAN (and IP subnet) plus four VLAN (11, 12, 21, 31) configured to this port #4 - that makes up in total -five-
You need to figure out to which VLAN (and/or IP subnet) that UTLAN is associated to.
I know which ip range UTLAN is associated to. It's the range I'm trying to get all these Netgear switches to always be on. UTLAN is not a vlan per say, it's the default UNTAGGED LAN.
This is an unnecessary feature limitation by Peplink. Very common in the networking industry to operate a trunk (multiple VLAN) together with an untagged access port.
However, in an earlier reply you showed a custom configuration for that port with one untagged and some tagged. So there is no limitation.
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