Questions tagged [vlan]

For questions about Virtual LANs (VLANs) which are used to divide what otherwise would be a single OSI layer-2 broadcast domain into multiple, logical OSI layer-2 broadcast domains.

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Should I be using point-to-point or broadcast if I plan on using SVI's in IS-IS on Juniper?

Apologies in advance if this is super-basic question, still learning ISIS. I'm migrating from Cisco over to Juniper in an environment where all of the switches are running EIGRP, are on a 172.31.255.0/...
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MST - multiple instance design in single region

I am preparing for migration of this rather simple network layout from RST to MST: From what I have read so far, it looks like the best approach is to avoid interoperability issues and simply rollout ...
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Configuring cisco 3750 switch with VLAN setup [closed]

I am trying to have the following network setup with two Cisco 3750 switches with SFP port accessibility and two laptops with ethernet ports. PC_1 (192.168.10.2) ---- -> Switch_1 (Vlan10) ---> ...
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Is non-blocking per-VLAN (rapid) spanning tree configuration possible?

Imagine a pair of switches connected with a couple of trunk links created in the following fashion: Assuming the numbers on lines correspond to different VLANs, how would you arrange a working ...
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Does anyone know how to create two vlan on a Askey RTF8115VW router? [closed]

Does anyone know how to create 2 different vlan on a Askey RTF8115VW router? I would like to be able to create two different vlan, one for the first port and another one for the second one. I would ...
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Static route is not saved - Why?

I have the following configuration. On R1 I do inter-vlan routing. The problem is when I ping the serial interface of ISP1 with PC MA11 the ping packet is not returned to R1. I wanted to add a static ...
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How to implement inter-vlan routing in this configuration on L3 switch

I want to enable inter-vlan routing on L3 switch. I have accomplished this by the following commands executed on Gig1/0/16 and Gig1/0/10 and setting the respective (192.168.x.1) as gateway on the ...
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Tag Control Information Byte Order

I need to extract the 12-bit VLAN ID from the 16-bit TCI section of the 802.1Q tag in an Ethernet frame. I already have the TCI extracted and stored as a uint16_t. I know that bytes arrive in Big ...
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How should edge switches have their routing configured (when there is a mgmt vlan in the mix)

I'm having trouble with a new network topology we are trying to implement onto our environment. The issue seems to be with the switches. The problem is not relevant to this question but for ...
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A newbie question about VLAN

Sorry for asking this. I am not a network engineer, but I do plan my own network, and know a little on how things moved. But I am not familiar on the terms being used. Now, suppose I have these ...
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Exclude a certain vlan/subnet from layer3 inter-vlan routing

We have new gen aruba (hpe) switches in our environment. There is a backbone (5412R zl2) which all edge switches are connected to. The edge switches are also layer 3 (2930F). The backbone delivers ...
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Restconf not getting switchport vlan information

I have a couple of catalyst switches which I'm experiencing an interesting issue using APIs not pulling all the information I need. The switches are running IOS-XE 17.6.3, but I have also seen the ...
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Is it possible to establish communication using just an ethernet cable?

I have two linux systems, server and client, whose both ethernet port has VLAN tagging(preconfigured IP address and same subnet), and connected with a common ethernet cable (no router or network ...
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Connecting L3 and L2 switches with VLAN settings

I have 1 L3 switch with Static ip - 192.168.0.252 Two L2 switches Switch A - 192.168.0.250 Switch B - 192.168.0.251 I have created VLANs in L3 switches with 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.2 ips abd set it ...
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Cisco Switch vIOS-L2 in GNS3 and CCNA 200-301

I am reading a preparation book for the CCNA Test 200-301. Currently, I am reading a section about DHCP and VLAN interfaces in a switch. The book shows an example of configuring this. switch# ...
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Cisco radius auto vlan assignment without ISE

I read in a lot of tutorials that i must have the ISE engine to implement auto vlan assignment using the authentication event fail retry 3 action authorize vlan 2 command on a cisco switch? Is that ...
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Private vlan split in two networks

Is it possible to split one private vlan (or isolated vlan) between two networks? so the "white" vlan from network 1 can only communicate with its peer in network 2?
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SPAN/RSPAN monitoring VLAN vs Interface

I am a little lost with regards to the concept of capturing every traffic passing a core switch. If we set our monitor source to be all VLANs in a L3 switch, does that mean that traffic coming from a ...
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Stretching VLANS across a network infrastructure

I am learning about Autonomous and Lightweight APs at the moment and I came across this slide from a course that I follow. This specific line I know that this problem can be solved by using ...
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How do I configure a Cisco router to relay DHCP packets to DHCP server on the basis of different VLAN?

Running-Config of RO1 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/0 ip address 192.168.25.26 255.255.255.0 duplex auto speed auto ! interface GigabitEthernet0/1 no ip address duplex auto speed auto ! interface ...
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vlan forwarding

I have a juniper ex2200c with a trunked uplink and an access port on a vlan. I plug a device into the access port and port mirror the access port and the uplink (at different times, as you can only ...
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VTP VLAN configuration not allowed when device is not the primary server for vlan database

I have a VTP server and 4 VTP clients. I wanted to create new VLANs on the VTP server and get the error VTP VLAN configuration not allowed when device is not the primary server for vlan database. The ...
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Trunk+Etherchannel group [duplicate]

The problem encountered in configuring the Trunk+Etherchannel group is that PC1 and PC2 are on different network segments, but I want PC1 to be able to successfully interconnect with PC2 (ping is ...
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Communication between different VLANs

In my previous understanding, there is no way to communicate between two VLANs using only layer 2. After all, this is the purpose of having VLAN. I found a forum that claims the following. 1.VLANs can ...
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Cannot get inter-VLAN routing to work

The router at the top is from the ISP and I have no control over things like WAN, NAT, etc. Network 192.168.1.1/24 is fine, but I cannot get inter-VLAN routing between VLANs 1 and 55. PC 1 cannot even ...
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Cannot ping/access single host over VPN [closed]

I am running openVPN server on pfSense machine, which is also the router of the network. This network has several VLAN's, where only single one of them is of interest - 10.0.100.0/22. The openVPN ...
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Nexus 7706 - switchport trunk allowed vlan not working - all VLANs are being allowed

I noticed that my two Nexus 7706 do not limit the trunk VLANs to what switchport trunk allowed vlan is set to. Sample configuration: interface Ethernet1/15 switchport switchport mode trunk ...
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Can Traffic pass a trunk if its not allowed but set as native vlan?

If i have configured 3 vlans vlan10 vlan20 vlan30 and then i make 2 trunkports int gi0/1 description trunk1 switchport mode trunk switchport trunk allowed vlan 20 switchport trunk native vlan 10 ...
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Single SSID w/PSK to default VLAN, Secondary Auth EAP-TLS to a second VLAN

I'm wondering if the following is possible given the limitations/constraints of RADIUS, CoA, and fundamental limits of 802.11 authentication, etc. I would like a wireless configuration with a single ...
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How to combine two Internet connection into one switch with VLAN

We currently have two different internet providers coming into our office (one is a backup), and each is going into separate switches. From the two different switches they are going up into both of ...
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Access to systems with the same IP address but various port number in another network?

I have some knowledge of networking but not much, so I appreciate knowing from the experts. modified part I have 10 devices(PLCs) with the same IP address "192.168.42.2" that I want to ...
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Is it okay to not assign an IP address to the physical interface of router when used for "Router on a Stick"?

When setting up "Router on a Stick" interVLAN routing, the steps I have seen only covered creating sub-interfaces for each VLAN and assigning an IP address to each of these sub-interfaces. ...
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Why do 802.1Q trunk ports drop tagged frames with the same ID as the native VLAN?

I'm taking a course on the CCNA and when learning about VLAN tagging, I came across this: "If an 802.1Q trunk port receives a tagged frame with the VLAN ID that is the same as the native VLAN, it ...
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Adding switch to domain, do I need to use vlan

I have a windows 2016 server. I am setting up a domain on it (office.local), and user accounts through Active Directory. Do I need a managed switch and vlan to allow PCs to connect to the server, or ...
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How do you drop (or ignore or filter) all untagged traffic on an 802.1q trunk port?

This answer says "[a] trunk has optionally one untagged VLAN and many tagged VLANS." I always thought specifying switchport mode trunk would drop untagged frames at that port, but that ...
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What does `switchport trunk native <n>` do when in `switchport mode trunk`?

According to this article Cisco recommends VLAN 99 for the "native VLAN". But what is the point when operating under switchport mode trunk? Doesn't switchport mode trunk filter all tagged ...
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Is it possible to have inter-VLAN communication when at one of the VLAN's NAT gateway is not set?

Currently I am testing a network and it almost does everything that I want it to do. Just one final step is missing and I am wondering if it is even possible in the current setup. I am using a router-...
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PFSense: Opt port able to get to my LAN port / internet

I am trying to setup a disruption between 2 networks one that is coming from the LAN port and one with a different SUBNET from the other (OPT) port. My LAN is not getting blocked from the OPT subnet ...
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Packet tracer help with routing between multiple company routers with vlans and wireless routers

Im still quite a novice to packet tracer (so im sorry if this has been answered) and I'm trying to ping both vlans at company1 router to both Lans at company2 router but for some reason when the ...
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What is the appropriate VLAN configuration for this?

We have a group of clients connects to a Arista switch with DHCP enabled. And we want to setup an additional private VLAN so that those clients can communicate to each other through pre-defined static ...
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Vlan 20 & native vlan 20

If native VLAN 20 wants to communicate with VLAN 20 through a trunk link what happens? Will native VLAN be able to communicate with VLAN 20?
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Is this a workable VLAN configuration?

I have three network switches wired and configured like this: 192.168.1.12 VLAN1: PORT 1 PORT 2 (U) PORT 3 (U) PORT 4 (U) PORT 5 PORT 6 PORT 7 PORT 8 (T) VLAN3: ...
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Made a VLAN on the switch. How to distribute the Internet to it? Is a bridge necessary or how is it done? (CLI interface)

Is a bridge necessary or how is it done? I work through the CLI interface. There is VLAN "X" (with internet). You need to give the Internet to the newly created VLAN "Y". Layer 3 ...
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Routing VLANs to Firewall Ports

My network has 3 VLANs: 10, 11, 12, and their address spaces are 10.0.X.0/24 where X is the VLAN ID. Their default gateway is a virtualized pfSense (even though it's virtual, I will use terminology as ...
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VLAN and firewall interconnection

I'm encountering some difficulties to connect some VLANs to a physical firewall. In details I have a core network with a L3 switch as a router and some L2 switches as access network. The network is ...
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Dell OS10 equivalent of Cisco switchport access

hoping someone knows OS10 command structure :) In the Cisco world, if I want to create an access port and add it to VLAN 50 its simply: switchport mode access switchport access vlan 50 What would the ...
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VLAN trunking - how to ping PC4 from PC1?

I'm still a beginner with VLANs and trunking, and I'm trying to get this topology working. Specifically, I am unable to ping PC4 (10.0.10.11/32) from PC1 (10.0.10.10/32), despite both of them being on ...
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Why should I use vlans instead of subnets?

I know that this might be a trivial question for the more experienced. However, I am a student who has just started designing networks. Assuming you have to design a network of a school divided into ...
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How to create a subnet or secondary network? Do I need VLANs?

I am not new to IT, but in the past, I've always had a Network Admin to handle this type of stuff. That being said I know just enough to be dangerous. What I have is an old hodgepodge of different ...
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How to configure a layer-3 switch for routing between VLANs?

I have set up the router as a dhcp server and I would like to use the layer 3 switch to route each PC in seperate vlans. How do I configure the router and L3 switch for inter vlan routing ? the router ...

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