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Aspirant

Sep 26, 2016

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Help with basic VLAN setup for GS748Tv5 required

Hello,

I am attempting to set up two ports on my GS746Tv5 switch to be a member of VLAN ID 100 (and only 100). The goal is for the two computers connected to those ports to be able to see each other on a 192.168.100.x/24 network. In order to achieve that I have first restored the the VLAN configuration to factory default, created a new VLAN (Static) with VLAN ID 100 and made ports 40 and 41 Untagged members of this VLAN. I have removed ports 40 and 41 from VLAN ID 1 by clearing their selections in the port list in the VLAN Membership screen. Also the port PVID configuration is set to 100 for both ports.

With both computers on a fixed IP address (192.168.100.105 and 192.168.100.164) and directly wired to ports 40 and 41 they are unable to ping each other unless ports 40 and 41 are made a member of VLAN 1 as well as VLAN 100.

What is wrong in my thinking here?

Troubleshooting

WouterB
Sep 29, 2016
Well, it works now.

I've power cycled the switch. Here's what I did:

- Created a new VLAN with ID 100
- Made two ports Untagged members of this VLAN 100
- Set the PVID of these two ports to 100
- Removed the two ports from membership of VLAN 1
- Connected two servers with IP addresses in the same subnet, no further configuration on the servers

Both servers can ping eachother. Computer attached to different ports cannot ping them.

Thanks for your help John,
Wouter

9 Replies

JohnRo
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 26, 2016
Hi WouterB,

Welcome to the community!

Your configuration appears correct to me. I'd just like to know, however, did you define a gateway address for both devices? Also, what is the firmware version that you are using?

Thanks,
- WouterB
  Aspirant
  Sep 27, 2016
  Hi John,
  
  I did define a gateway for each device: both 192.168.100.1 which, with routing disabled, is not a known host and is not pingable. In my view this isn't necessary if the hosts are only to ping each other. But of course, I may be wrong here.
  
  The Software Version on my switch is 6.3.1.11.
  
  After posting my question I proceeded to factory reset the entire switch, try the same test, but the outcome was the same.
  
  Cheers,
  Wouter
  - JohnRo
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Sep 27, 2016
    Hi WouterB,
    
    Well, that's odd. Only one thing to suspect, the firewalls on the PC. Try disabling them and see if it will allow you to pass. How are you testing the connection?
    
    Thanks,