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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...
Hm, probably - this can be read from the description too.
For my part, I see only two networks, and just one network cable for making both networks available in both rooms.
For my part, I see only two networks, and just one network cable for making both networks available in both rooms.
Retired_Member: Thanks for the feedback. As schumaku has pointed out correctly, there are only two networks. IP configuration and routing is not the issue here, I'll take care of that. I was just not familiar with the VLAN and trunk issue. After carefully reading and understanding schumaku first comment, I found a few useful links (there are many...), two of which I'm including here if anyone ever stumbles over this thread with the same question:
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/VLAN_Basics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi48h6UFhlo
Thanks for your thoughts here and sorry that I didn't look this up before. I was kinda scared by the tagging stuff and thought "port-based" would be what I wanted.
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