NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
GS728TP which router to use to route data and VOIP
I am looking at buying two GST728TP PoE switches for my sons Garage/Petrol forecourt business. We want one switch in an office in one building and another switch in the shop itself (linked via armou...
Hi
I have created a document which I am now sharing with the community to hopefully save other people having to go through the problems I had. I am not a Google fan so I have shared a file through my Microsoft One-Drive. Click on the link to read the full document which is illustrated with many screen shots and includes the finally network diagram.
Go to Link to How I setup the VLANs
I could never have done this without the help of netgear support because they pointed me in the right direction but did not do it for me. I have to know how to do it myself so that I can repeat it again. Thanks for the support I have had from Netgear and despite the glitches I mentioned I would definitely use them again, mainly because of the huge price advantage compared to Cisco and HP Switches. However I still think Smart Switches are harder to work with than using a comand line and it takes a lot longer because of having to constantly refresh the webpage!
Hi Dantech-1,
If ever you have a Google Drive account, you may share a doc file or pdf file publicly. Then, post the shareable link here on this forum thread.
Access the link below for more details:
Share files and folders using Google Drive
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi
I have created a document which I am now sharing with the community to hopefully save other people having to go through the problems I had. I am not a Google fan so I have shared a file through my Microsoft One-Drive. Click on the link to read the full document which is illustrated with many screen shots and includes the finally network diagram.
Go to Link to How I setup the VLANs
I could never have done this without the help of netgear support because they pointed me in the right direction but did not do it for me. I have to know how to do it myself so that I can repeat it again. Thanks for the support I have had from Netgear and despite the glitches I mentioned I would definitely use them again, mainly because of the huge price advantage compared to Cisco and HP Switches. However I still think Smart Switches are harder to work with than using a comand line and it takes a lot longer because of having to constantly refresh the webpage!
Hi Dantech-1,
The document you have shared is fully detailed. Thanks for sharing it here in the community. A lot will benefit from it. :)
Feel free to post your future concerns here in the community.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Thank you. I believe in sharing so that when I need help someone else might help too. The next step is to conect the second switch.
Should I set the second switch in "Switch Mode" or "Routing" mode? From what you said I only need to configure VLANs and should not setup routes on the second switch. This is also a Netgear GS-728TP.
Hi Dantech-1,
On the 2nd GS728TP switch, you do not need to enable routing mode on it, as this is already being taken care of in the 1st GS728TP switch. Then, for the VLAN requirements on the 2nd GS728TP switch, you must create the VLANs manually. Set the untagged (U) and tagged (T) port members and PVID accordingly. On the uplink port (between the 1st GS728TP and the 2nd GS728TP) set the port as tagged (T) in each VLAN which must communicate from the 2nd GS728TP to the 1st GS728TP1 and as well as to the router. This should allow the ports on the 2nd GS728TP to communicate across the network.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi - thanks for that - most helpful. Just to clarify something though. Does the default VLAN (VLAN 1) need to be untagged on the uplink or tagged? On HP Switches I remembr having the default VLAN to be untagged and all other VLANs had to be tagged. Of course the tagging and untagging must be done on both ports at the end of the uplink i.e. Port 24 on Switch 1 and Port 24 on Switch 2.
Mark
Hi Dantech-1,
I think you can leave the port on default VLAN that is connected to the uplink be untagged.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community TeamHi Dantech-1,
Is everything now working fine?
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi DaneA
When I restarted the switch I had noticed that the switch settings for the management VLAN had changed. The switch took on the IP address of VLAN 10 and yet I could web manage the switch on that IP address! It had also changed the management VLAN setting to VLAN 10 instead of VLAN 300. I had connected my Netgear GS-108T v2 to the GS728TP to test the VLANs and to check that a device in a VLAN on the 2nd switch (GS108T) could ping a device in the same VLAN on the first switch. his all worked fine. What I could not do was get both switches set in VLAN 300 with the management VLAN set to 300 on both switches.
I need to do some more testing on this and I hope to put the firstswitch config onto the switch that is in the shop to test it for real. We had an issue with the new TP-Link router overheating from new and I can't fully test it until this has been replaced under warranty by TP-Link.
Hi Dantech-1,
Were you able to set it all up inside the shop? If yes, is everything working fine?
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi
We are still waiting for TP-Link to replace the faulty overheating router and cannot do anything until that arrives. They have accepted it as faulty and we are awaiting delivery. I will post back on the forum when I can implement it for real in the Shop/Office
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
