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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Why and how are Ethernet Vlans tagged?
I hear about VLAN tagging, but I don’t quite understand the concept. I know a trunk cannot accept untagged packets without configuring a native VLAN, and that access ports only accept untagged ...
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Difference between Subnet and VLAN?
You often hear the terms Subnet and VLAN used interchangeably. With the ubiquitous nature of IP these days, when are the two not considered roughly the same from a high-level, understanding that ...
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Using SNMP to retrieve the ARP and mac-address tables from a switch
I would like to get ARP tables from a switch to a syslog-ng server that has been set up on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. I have read about SNMP and I know the server will act as a manager and the switch as ...
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Why is 4096 the max value for VLANs
The Tag Protocol Identifier is set to 16 bits.
In the CCNA certification it is said that it's not possible to have more than 4096 VLANs.
4096 in binary is 1000000000000000.
Since 16 bits are allocated ...
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Why can't devices on different VLANs, but on the same subnet, communicate?
I have a question about switching. I have two devices connected to a switch with IP addresses 192.168.5.20 and 192.168.5.10. Both devices have the same prefix, /24. That means they are on the same ...
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Accidentally Removed Allowed VLANs from Cisco Switch Dot1Q Trunk
I am adding a new VLAN to an existing trunk port between two Cisco Catalyst switches (3750's). In the process of adding the new VLAN, it appears that I've removed the existing allowed VLANs on the ...
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vlan 0, 1, and 4095 are reserved: what are they reserved for?
This answer says vlans 0 and 4095 are reserved. Wikipedia agrees that vlans 0 and 4095 are reserved. This article says that Cisco reserves vlan 1 (in addition to vlans 0 and 4095).
But I am having ...
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Introductory level explanation of VLANs
What's the basic use case(s) for VLANs?
What are the basic design principles?
I'm looking for something like a two paragraph executive summary style answer so I can determine if I need to learn ...
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What, exactly, is required to make Airplay work across VLANs? [closed]
It seems like AirPlay works out-of-the-box, vaguely speaking, only within a LAN. It's not clear to me exactly why, but it looks like at least discovery relies on broadcasts. Wikipedia states that ...
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Easily deploying new VLANs in a large environment
How do people handle the need to add VLANs to all switches on their network (or even a subset of devices)? We are adding around 6 new VLANs per week at the moment and as the network grows this is ...
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Is the "default VLAN" simply the default native (untagged) VLAN on all interfaces that have no configuration?
... or does the "default VLAN" have some wider meaning?
Also, can it / should it be changed? For instance, if a switch is going into part of a network that is only one VLAN and it's not VLAN 1, is ...
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Adding a simple VLAN on a Juniper MX
after years away from JunOS, working with Foundry (now Brocade) routers, I find myself with a new Juniper MX10. All I want to do is create a simple VLAN such that two ports share one routing ...
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When *not* to create a SVI for a L2 VLAN?
When creating VLANs for just L2 on a switch -- routing will be handled by a device within that VLAN such as a load-balancer -- it isn't necessary to create the vlan interface. As a matter of habit, I ...
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Should ARP requests be VLAN tagged?
I'm wondering if the ARP requests should be tagged when being sent out of a VLAN tagged interface?
It seems logical to me that the ARP request should be tagged, since it needs to travel all the ...
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Will duplicated MAC address give problems, if in different VLANs?
A small company has 2 Cisco Catalyst 3550, with 24 ports each, connecting their equipaments.
After some trouble, we found that two NICs had the same MAC address. After the initial reaction of blaming ...
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Configure Cisco ASA in Transparent mode: Layer2 DMZ w/ Vlan translation
I am in the middle of a project to migrate some existing switched ethernet dot1q trunks behind an ASA firewall... these trunks have five vlans each (numbered 51 - 55). This is a simple drawing of the ...
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Why should the native VLAN never be used?
Currently studying for a CCNA Security, I have been taught to never use the native VLAN for security purposes. This old discussion from Cisco forum states it very clearly:
You should never use the ...
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How to Monitor Vlan Traffic?
We have migrated to a new ISP who provide us several services (Internet+VoIP+VoD) and have divided each service in one vlan 100,101,102 respectively.
Now I'm looking for a solution to monitor each ...
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Mac-flap due to roaming clients on wireless
We are running an Aerohove wireless network (controller-less).. I occasionally get mac-flaps within the VLAN tied to a SSID. I know this is coming from a roaming client.. The problem is that the ...
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VLAN and subnet relationship
Many have pointed out that a VLAN can hold one or more subnets. If your default gateway for this subnet is on a router or a L3 switch then how could there be more than one default gateway in a VLAN ...
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OSPF Stuck in Exstart Adjacency State
According to this article two routers will get stuck in the exstart adjacency state when their configured MTU sizes do not match. Does a VLAN tag affect this as well even if the routers involved are ...
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VXLAN vs VLAN over layer 3
I read that one of the benefits of VXLAN over VLAN is that it can spawn across WAN and multiple layer 3 networks by creating overlay layer 2 networks.
However AFAIN VLAN can also do the same using ...
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VRFs, VLANs and subnets: difference
I have a basic understanding of VRFs, VLANs and subnets. I understand that VLANs operate on L2, and subnets and VRFs (lite) on L3. What I don't understand, is why you would choose one over the other ...
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Tracing TCN Messages in STP
We have about 20 vlans on a L2 network running Rapid PVST+ where the root bridge is a stack of Cisco's 3750 switches. I am a bit puzzled by the number of TCN notifications I receive on the switch..
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Locate a host on Network
What is the best method of locating a particular workstation on a VLAN ?
I sometimes need to do this, if a workstation IP address, shows up on an ACL Deny
torrent use
High bandwidth usage (Top ...
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IPv6 DHCP Server vs Router
I am setting up a testing environment for dualstack.
I currently have a server (Windows 2008 R2), 2 switches and a router installed and configured. The server is the Primary Domain Controller and it ...
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Handling VLAN based MPLS circuits with site specific internet access
I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around how to set this up and the MPLS vendor is being no help so I figured I would ask here.
I have a 2 node MPLS each site having internet access on the same ...
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VLANs over internet
How does VLANs work over the internet and span across multiple geographical locations?
VLAN headers are removed when frames move to another switch or a router?
How does it happen?
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WHY and HOW do routers and vlans break broadcast domains?
Everybody says routers (and vlans) break broadcast domains, but nobody goes into WHY that is, it seems.
What's the router logic?
Say I have three routers on my lan, with one main router and the ...
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Can a switch that does NOT support VLAN capability be considered a managed switch if it has other features?
So the question is in the title.
If a switch does not support Virtual Local Area Network capabilities can it still be considered a managed switch?
What other features should it have to be considered ...
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VLAN assignment philosophy
I have several Layer 3 switch/routers which are all connected via an OSPF routed network. Also attached to each switch are two other networks. I have to assign a VLAN to each of these networks, I ...
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Can a switch that does not support VLAN process traffic from a Trunk that is not the native VLAN
Recently encountered a setup where the engineer had a Multilayer Cisco switch with a trunk carrying VLAN 41 to an HP switch that did not support VLANs.
What should the HP switch do with the 802.1q ...
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Does L-ASA-SC-10= require a reboot?
We have some existing ASA-5555X in multiple context mode, and we are using one context per-vlan as a transparent layer2 firewall. Over time, we have been adding to this solution, and we're about to ...
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Setting up PIM Sparse mode
I am working on trying to setup our network for multicast traffic. In the coming months we will be installing new equipment that sends out multicast traffic. In the past we have only had 1 VLAN so we ...
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Voice VLAN information
I am aware of the ability to show the access VLAN assigned to an interface on a cisco switch. How about showing specifically the voice VLAN an interface is assigned?
#show run int fa1/47
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NAT VLANs with same IP Subnets
I have a VMware environment in which VMs are running a simulation suite. The software used has hardcoded IP addresses, about 10-15 VMs, and we are running multiple instances of this software each in ...
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Switchport mode access VLAN & switchport mode trunk on one interface
Googling around to see if this setup on one port is correct (it doesn't look right to me), I'm not really seeing a straightforward answer.
There is an interface with the following configuration:
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routing between vlans not working
I need to put a Cisco router behind an ISP router.
(The ISP doesn't allow us to use their modem only.)
I've called the ISP technical service and they've set up the connection with me.
Their router ...
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Which VLANs are allowed on this trunk?
I'm getting some mixed signals when configuring a trunk on a Cisco switch and I'd like to know which VLANs are actually being allowed on it. The way I want it to be is that only VLANs 1,10,20,30,99 ...
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SubInterface on a router
How many sub interfaces can be created on a cisco router to route between vlans on a connected switch?
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What was the intended use for VLANs 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005? (fddi trcrf fddinet trbrf)
The output of show vlan brief includes VLANs 1002 - 1005:
1002 fddi-default active
1003 trcrf-default active
1004 fddinet-default active ...
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Access Multiple VLANs from One Computer
I inherited a bit of mess and am preparing to redo our IP addressing scheme and also split our network into multiple VLANs.
Possibly something like:
10.1.10.0/24 VLAN 10 VOIP
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How is IEEE 802.1ad (aka VLAN Tagging, QinQ) valid, when the packets are too large?
Recently i've been dealing with MTU issues. And it all seems to stem from the fact that the ethernet adapter on newer computers default of a frame size of 1504 bytes:
>netsh interface ipv4 show ...
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Regarding Dot1X dynamic VLAN assignment
Situation:
I am trying to get 802.1X working for me. I want RADIUS server to dynamically assign VLANs to ports based on RADIUS reply attribute for particular user. I have an HP E2620 switch and a ...
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carrier's vlan tags overlap my own
I have a 3 site network: one is a data center colo and the other two are offices. The new Metro Ethernet service we just installed requires the colo site's traffic destined to the offices to be in ...
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What is VLAN Hopping
I am starting on my journey into the world of Networking and have come across a term called VLAN hopping. The sentence I read was that if the Native VLAN on two switches connected to each other via ...
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How do I set up a VLAN between an ESXi VM and Physical Hardware? [closed]
First of all, I am a total noob. The extent of my VLAN experience is setting up a guest network on a wireless router.
I have recently gotten a request to set up a public network requiring filtering ...
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Native Vlan Cisco Catalyst and Layer 3 switch
I have run into an interesting issue setting the native VLAN between one of my Cisco Catalyst 2960 and my Layer 3 switch (third party). Here is the setup, the layer three switch is set up to run on ...
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Upgrading our Network to Managed Switch with Internet Routing
I am a business owner with multiple BT Buisness Broadband lines. We have two sets of VOIP lines and two sets of PC's, each with there own switch board.
The problem that we have is that our lines go ...
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Map the underlying structure of a VLAN
Is there any way to detect the underlying layout physical layout of a VLAN. For instance, to know whether two devices in the same VLAN are connected via the same wifi AP.
To clarify, this would be ...
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