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Thomas-S
Feb 23, 2022Aspirant
Newbie VLAN setup question: 2 GS305E linked with a trunk shall do port-based-VLAN
Consider the following (simplified) scenario. Company A and B share two office rooms (R1 and R2) on one floor of a building. A and B have some of their equipment in both rooms: in room 1 there is Swi...
schumaku
Feb 23, 2022Guru
With port-based VLAN, there is no way to have two networks on one physical link.
The connection beween the two rooms (and the repsective network access), you need to run an 802.1q VLAN trunk with (at least one, I would suggest both networks [aka. VLANs]), so VLAN 1 [t]agged and VLAN 2 [t]agged. Then, create two plus two access ports for each network, say VLAN 1 [u]ntagged with PVID 0, resp. VLAN 2 [u]ntagged with PVID 2.
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