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ubiq1er
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Mar 12, 2021

Let's talk about switches and ping

Hi,

 

Recently bought an additional GS108PEv3 switch to power up some Access Points.
I accessed to its management interface to configure it (Static Ip, VLAN settings,...)
After that, I put it where it belongs in my network.

But then, as I couldn’t access this new GS108PEv3 switches web management interface from PC B, i made some tests.

 

So, I have the following network situation (see image attached).

For the purpose of the test, all devices were set with static IPs.

 

Switches are set up with 4 different VLANs, and linked through 802.1q trunk ports.

The entering port used for PC A and PC B are in the same VLAN.

 

PC A :

- Can ping all the switches, but not PC B.

 

PC B :

- PC B can ping the 24 ports switches, but gets no response from the 8 port switch.
- PC B can ping PC A (but the other way around doesn’t work).

 

Why is that ? Is this layer 2, layer 3 related ?

 

 

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