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OlafDC
Aspirant
Aug 01, 2016
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Vlan compatibility with Cisco

Hi, We just purchased 10 x new Netgear switches (All M4100) to add to an existing Cisco infrastructure. Fairly simple setup with only 6 Valns. 5: Admin, 30: VOIP, 101 : Management, 100: One set of...
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  • OlafDC's avatar
    OlafDC
    Aug 08, 2016

    Hi DaneA,

     

    Thanks for reaching out.

    We got this working.

    Step 1: Upgrade to the latest firmware.

    Step 2: Forget the GUI.

    We had some issues relating to old firmware - causing the trunk links to have some incompatibility with how they tag and untag frames between Cisco and Netgear.

    After upgrading the firmware we had access to 'switchport mode access' and 'switchport mode trunk' commands fixing the access port and trunking issues.

    Thanks Sir,

    Olaf

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DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 03, 2016

Hi OlafDC,

 

Welcome to the community! :) 

 

Kindly answer the questions below:

 

a. Have you set PVID=1 on all tagged ports? 

b. How is everything connected?  Kindly post a screenshot or image of your detailed network setup.

 

I look forward to your response.

 

 

Regards,


DaneA

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