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VLAN Configuration
Good morning, I have a GS308T that I am trying to configure and I am having difficulty. I need one physical port (port 1) to connect to my router as the trunk / access port for all traffic to the I...
tmittelstaedt wrote:
I think it's more the marketing people telling the engineers what to stick in there.
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The PVID config option might exist just so they can say it exists, not because they intend it to be used.
Considering the presence (and requirement) to not forget to configure the PVID to send the untgged ingress to the correct VLAN is probably the #1 VLAN switch support issue .... figure.
tmittelstaedt wrote:
Right - but since Netgear does not support it, I'm not going to send him down that rabbithole.
Hey I'm with you 8-)
But exactly the (unsupported?) asymmetric VLAN is the (only?) reason for having the crappy PVID config option on almost all Netgear switches. Because without, a port could be configured with only one [U]ntagged VLAN (actually it allows is to configure many), and a simple access port config for VLAN x would be much easier to understand for this customer base.
Somehow I think Netgear forgot about why things are speced and implemented as they are....
I think it's more the marketing people telling the engineers what to stick in there.
Somewhere on the Netgear site (it may be gone, now) I recall years ago reading "layer 3 routing" in a marketing glossy for the ProSafe+ switch series. Of course I dug into it since nobody at the time was making and selling routing switches for under $2000. Well the glossies from Marketing were trumpeting that but the actual user manual for every switch I looked at from the boring engineer types said no such thing.
Another one that irks me is "layer 2 monitoring" claims for switches that have no possible way to display the mac address database inside the switch.
The PVID config option might exist just so they can say it exists, not because they intend it to be used.
Unfortuately Netgear isn't the only company that engages in this. I learned a long long time ago before plunking down any cash to throughly read the user manual and see if the device can actually do what I want it to do instead of what the manufacturer wants me to think it can do. :-)
tmittelstaedt wrote:
I think it's more the marketing people telling the engineers what to stick in there.
...
The PVID config option might exist just so they can say it exists, not because they intend it to be used.
Considering the presence (and requirement) to not forget to configure the PVID to send the untgged ingress to the correct VLAN is probably the #1 VLAN switch support issue .... figure.
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