Asis illustrated in the topology, there are 4 VLAN groups configured on the switch and both the AP and the Internet gateway router are connected to the ports of the switch, here we suppose AP is connected to Port 1 and the Internet gateway router is connected to Port 2,vlan1 includes port 1,2,3,4; VLAN 2 includes port 1,2,5,6; VLAN 3 includes port 1,2,7,8; VLAN 4 includes port 1,2,9,10.After Sothe 3850 will be the gateway for the two vlans, for example: vlan 128. interface vlan 128. ip address 10.128..1 / ISP1. Topology Sw-->Rtr \ ISP2 . Now if the isps provide only internet send a default gateway from switch to router and from router two default gateways, with one as floating for backup: ip route 0.0.0.0 Switchconfig)#interface fastEthernet 0/1 Switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk Switch(config-if)# 2. Now the VLANs can transmit traffic over the FastEthernet 0/1 without any problems. Note: Try to enable trunking mode only to interface between to switch or router devices. It's not necessary to enable it on the interface of the switch to PC. Opena web browser. In the address bar of the web browser, type the IP address of the switch and press Enter. Type the admin password of the switch and click Login. Go to Switching - VLAN - Advanced - VLAN Configuration. In the VLAN ID field, type the ID of the VLAN you wish to create and click Add. Here we add VLAN 10. Switch2 Gi1/0/3 VLAN 20 Gi1/0/2 VLAN 20 Gi1/0/1 VLAN 10 Gi1/0/1 Gi1/0/3 Gi1/0/2 VLAN 10 Switch 1 Router 1 Router 2 net net 3.2 Configuration Scheme You can configure protocol VLAN on port 1/0/1 of Switch 2 to meet this requirement. When this port receives packets, Switch 2 will forward them to the corresponding VLANs according to their Ihave an 8 port TP-Link SG3210 layer 2 802.1Q tag capable switch and a Huawei NE40E router. I set up 3 Vlans on the switch and assign ports to each. I want to make computers on each Vlan 'see' each other. Can I set up a single port on the switch as a trunk port out to the Cisco 1901, and use the Cisco to route between the Vlans? 9dK9. A Virtual Local Area Network or VLAN is a way of partitioning computers on a network into cluster groups that serve a common business purpose. The LAN part indicates that we are partitioning physical hardware while the virtual part indicates we are using logic to accomplish it. In this article, we will see how you can create a VLAN and then configure it to allow data packets from another VLAN to cross over into it. Note while we have tried to make the whole exercise of setting up a VLAN as simple as possible, it is assumed that you, the reader, have a basic grasp of network configuration. We also assume that you have a working knowledge of the concepts, and purposes, of IP addresses, gateways, switches, and routers. In addition, you also need to know about navigating the interface and sub-interface configuration procedures on computers and networking devices. Step-by-step – How to set up a VLAN The best way to learn how to set up a VLAN – apart from going to networking school – is to actually do it in a practical exercise. And since we don’t all have routers and switches lying about, it would make sense to create our VLAN in a simulated environment. In this example, we will be using Cisco Packet Tracer to demonstrate how to set up our VLAN. It is one of the easiest, and most realistic, tools to use and allows for both GUI and CLI interfaces. This way you can see the commands that are being executed in real-time even though you are simply clicking and drag-and-dropping as you go about your configuration. The tool can be downloaded, set up, and verified by opening a learning account at Cisco Networking Academy. Don’t worry; you can simply sign up for the FREE Cisco Packet Tracer Course in order to gain full access to the design tool. Also, and apart from the ease-of-use, with Cisco being the market leader, we think this is the appropriate choice to demonstrate how to set up a VLAN. Of course, you can use any other similar tool – because the concept remains the same. A quick online search will show you there are applications – desktop as well browser-based – for every brand of network interface devices out there. Find and work with the one you are most comfortable with. Router-on-a-Stick – the explanation While there are many ways of setting up a VLAN or inter-VLAN, the architecture we will be creating will be making use of what is known as a Cisco Router on a Stick configuration. In this network configuration, our router will have a single physical or logical connection to our network. This router will help bridge the two VLANs – that cannot communicate with one another – by connecting to our switch via a single cable. Here’s how it works data packets that are sent out from a computer in the Accounting VLAN – and intended for a computer in the Logistics VLAN – will travel to the switch. The switch, upon recognizing the packets need to cross over to another VLAN, will forward the traffic to the router. The router, meanwhile, will have one physical interface a network cable, in our example that has been split into two logical sub-interfaces. The sub-interfaces will each be authorized to access one VLAN. When the data packets arrive at the router, they will be forwarded to the correct VLAN via the authorized sub-interface and then arrive at their intended destination. Our Router on a Stick VLAN setup, with inter-VLAN capabilities, will look like this Planning your tasks The whole task of creating our network architecture will be divided into four main categories where you will Connect all devices to form the correct architecture Configure interfaces so all the devices can “talk” to one another Create VLANs and assign computers to their respective VLANs Confirm correct configuration by demonstrating the computers cannot communicate beyond their VLAN So, without further ado, let’s start creating our VLAN. Remember, it will initially have a switch and four computers connected to it. You can bring the router into the design later if you choose to do so. Connect all devices Drag and drop a switch, a router, and four computers into the main design board. For our demo, we will be using a 2960 switch and a 2911 router. The switch will connect to four computers PC0, PC1, PC2, and PC3 using copper straight-through wire connections you will see the description of the hardware and connection types at the very bottom of the Tracer window. Next, connect the switch to each computer using the FastEthernet ports. Once all devices are connected you should have all-green traffic flowing between the devices. As the tool tries to emulate devices booting and connecting in the real world, it might take a minute or two. So don’t worry if the data flow indicators remain orange for a few seconds. If your connections and configurations are correct, it will all soon change to green. To make things easier to grasp, let’s mark the two computers on the left as belonging to the Accounting department blue and the other two as belonging to the Logistics departments red. Configure interfaces Now, let’s start assigning IP addresses so our computers can start communicating with one another. The IP assignments will look like this ACCT PC0 = ACCT PC1 = LOGS PC2 = LOGS PC3 = The default gateway for the computers is for the first two in Accounting, and for the last two computers in Logistics. You can access the configuration by going to the Desktop menu and then clicking on the IP Configuration window. Once you’re there, start filling in the configurations for all the computers When you are done, we can now move on to the switch. First, though, we need to remember that there will be two types of ports on our switch Access Ports these are the ports that will be used to allow everyday devices like computers and servers to connect to it; in our example, these are the FastEthernet 0/1, FastEthernet 1/1, FastEthernet 2/1, and FastEthernet 3/1 – one for each computer. Trunk Ports these are the ports that allow a switch to communicate with another switch – or in our example a VLAN-to-VLAN communication on the same switch via the router – to expand the network; we will use the GigaEthernet0/0 ports on both the connectivity devices. With that in mind, let’s move on to the fun part – configuring the switch to run our VLANs. Create VLANs and assign computers So, let’s create the VLANs first – they will be named ACCT VLAN 10 and LOGS VLAN 20. Go to the switch’s CLI to type in the commands Switchconfig terminal Switchconfigvlan 10 Switchconfig-vlanname ACCT Switchconfig-vlanvlan 20 Switchconfig-vlanname LOGS The commands in your CLI should look like this Or, if you’re not up to it, you can simply use the GUI to create the VLANs and still see the commands run as they are being executed below. Go to the Config-VLAN Database menu and ADD the VLANs by entering their numbers 10,20 and names ACCT, LOGS. Next, we need to assign each port, which the switch uses to connect the computers, to their respective VLANs. You can simply choose the interface and then check the box of the corresponding VLAN from the configuration menu on the right As you can see from the image above, you can alternatively go into the CLI interface of each port and use the command switchport access vlan 10 to perform the same task. Don’t worry; there is a shorter way of doing this in case there are a large number of ports to assign. For example, if you had 14 ports, the command would be Switchconfig-ifint range fa0/1-14 Switchconfig-if-rangeswitchport mode access The second command makes sure that the switch understands the ports are to be ACCESS ports and not TRUNK ports. Confirm correct configuration And that’s it; we have created two VLANs on the same switch. To test it, and confirm our configuration is correct, we can try pinging P1 and P3 from P0. The first ping should be fine while the second one should time out and lose all the packets How to set up an inter-VLAN Now, although we have divided the computers into two VLANs – as was required – it makes more sense that the two departments Accounting and Logistics would need to communicate with one another. This would be the norm in any real-life business environment. After all, logistics couldn’t be purchased or supplied without financial backing, right? So, we need to make sure that ACCT and LOGS are able to communicate – even if they are on separate VLANs. This means we need to create an inter-VLAN communication. Here’s how to go about it We will need the help of our router; it will act as a bridge between the two VLANS – so, go ahead and add a router to your design if you haven’t already done so. Jumping into the configuration, we must understand that we will use one port on the router for both VLANs’ communication by “splitting” it into two ports. Meanwhile, the switch will only use one TRUNK port to send and receive all communications to, and from, the router. So, going back to our router, we will split the GigabitEthernet0/0 interface into GigabitEthernet0/ for VLAN10 and GigabitEthernet0/ for VLAN20. We will then use the IEEE standard protocol for interconnecting switches, routers, and for defining VLAN topologies. Once done, these “sub-interfaces” – as they called – are then assigned to each VLAN that we want to connect or bridge. Finally, remember the gateways – and – we added to the computers’ configurations earlier? Well, these will be the new IP addresses of the split ports or sub-interfaces on the router. The CLI commands to create the sub-interfaces under the GigabitEthernet0/0 interface would be Router configinterface GigabitEthernet0/ Router config-subifencapsulation dot1q 10 Router config-subifip address Repeating it all for the second sub-interface and VLAN we get Router configinterface GigabitEthernet0/ Router config-subifencapsulation dot1q 20 Router config-subifip address Once you close the CLI, you can confirm your configuration is correct by simply moving the mouse over the router to see your work, which should look something like this Now, we know that we can only connect our sub-interfaces on the router to our switch via its trunk port – and so, we will need to create it now. All you need to do is go in the switch’s GigabitEthernet0/0 configuration and run switchport mode trunk. And there you have it; you have just created two VLANs that contain two computers each and which can still communicate with one another. You can prove this by pinging the first Logistics computer PC2 with IP address from the first Accounting computer PC0 with the IP address Great Success! Why set up a VLAN or inter-VLAN At this point, some of you may be wondering why we would need to go through this exercise and bother with VLANs or inter-VLANs at all. Well, there are many reasons, some of which are Security Breaking up a network into components ensures that only authorized users and devices can access a sub-network. You wouldn’t want your accountants to interfere with the work of your logistics department or vice versa. Safety In case there is a virus outbreak, only one subnet would be affected as the devices on one subnet wouldn’t be able to communicate – and thus transfer – the virus to another one. This way, clean-up procedures would be focused on that one subnet which also makes it easier to identify the culprit machine a lot faster. Ensures privacy by isolation If someone wanted to find out about your network’s architecture with the intent of attacking it, they would use a packet sniffer to map out your layout. With isolated sub-networks, the culprits would only be able to get a partial picture of your network thus denying them critical information about your vulnerabilities, for example. Eases network traffic Isolated sub-networks can keep traffic usage down by keeping resource-intensive processes limited to their own scope and not overwhelming the whole network. This means, just because IT is pushing critical updates to the accounting machines, doesn’t mean the logistics department has to face a network slowdown too. Traffic prioritization With businesses that have various types of data traffic the sensitive or resource-hogging packets VoIP, media, and large data transfers, for example can be assigned to a VLAN with larger broadband while those that only need the network to send out emails can be assigned to a VLAN with lesser bandwidth. Scalability When a business needs to scale-up the resources available to its computers it can reassign them to new VLANs. Their administrators simply create a new VLAN and then move the computers into them with ease. As we can see, VLANs help protect a network while also improving the performance of the data packets that travel around it. Static VLAN vs Dynamic VLAN We thought it would be worth mentioning that there are two types of VLANs that available for implementation Static VLAN This VLAN design depends on hardware to create the sub-networks. The computers are assigned to a specific port on a switch and plugged right in. If they need to move to another VLAN, the computers are simply unplugged from the old switch and plugged back into the new one. The problem with this is that anyone can move from one VLAN to another one by simply switching the ports they are connected to. This means administrators would require physical security methods or devices put in place to prevent such unauthorized accesses. Dynamic VLAN This is the VLAN we have just created in the exercise we did earlier. In this VLAN architecture, we have software VLANs where the administrators simply use logic to assign specific IP or MAC addresses to their respective VLANs. This means devices can be moved to any part of the business, and as soon as they connect to the network, they return to their pre-assigned VLANs. There is no need for additional configurations. If there is one drawback with this scenario, it can only be that the business would need to invest in an intelligent switch – a VLAN Management Policy Switch VMPS – which can be on the expensive side when compared to the traditional switch used in static VLANs. It can also be safely assumed here that businesses with a few computers and a smaller IT budget can choose to implement a static VLAN while those with a large number of devices and a need for more efficiency and security would be wise to invest in a dynamic VLAN. Conclusion We hope you have found all the information you needed to learn about how to set up a VLAN. We also hope that the exercise was easy to follow and that you can now go on to build upon the knowledge you have gained. Because, even as you continue to scale upwards, these basic steps remain the same – you simply continue to add hardware and configurations to the basics. VLAN FAQs What is a VLAN?A VLAN is a method that makes networks more efficient by reducing the scope of broadcast transmissions to just a section of the network. A broadcast goes to every part of the network, which can create a lot of traffic all over the system, including to areas that will never need to receive that broadcast or respond to it. Effectively, a VLAN divides up a network into is a VLAN different from a LAN?LAN stands for Local Area Network, which is the common name for a typical network inside an office. The virtual LAN VLAN creates sections of that LAN, which seem to be separate systems, even though they are actually all connected together. The segmentation of the LAN into VLANs happens at the Data Link Layer Layer 2, so it is implemented on switches and bridges. Routers are at the Network Layer Layer 3. They operate for the entire network but use software techniques to distinguish between VLAN sections. The router can bridge between these sections with inter-VLAN are the types of VLAN?There are five types of VLAN Default VLAN Switches have settings that can implement VLANs but these are all initially set to VLAN1. As all switches have the same VLAN, there is only one VLAN operating, which effectively means that the technology is disabled. Data VLAN Also known as a user VLAN, this strategy creates two groups one for users and one for devices. This ill only carry data. Voice VLAN Meant for the office telephone network and implemented with VoIP, this VLAN carries voice traffic. This traffic gets priority over data traffic to ensure a high quality of service. Management VLAN Accesses the management functions of a switch for tasks such as logging, and extracting activity and status data for system monitoring. When other VLANs are set up, the management VLAN should be left as VLAN1. Native VLAN Used for trunk ports that handle traffic from all VLANs, creating a common transmission channel that traffic can be split out of for individual VLANs. While echoing Ron and John's comments that there is no universal "best practice" here and there's only what's best for you, I'd like to propose an alternative solution that you haven't mentioned yet. EdgeRouter does support bonding/link aggregation using Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP. However, in older EdgeRouters, this traffic was not eligible for offloading, which meant bonding for example 4 gigabit ports wouldn't result in 4Gbps of bandwidth. It would produce redundancy, but some bandwidth less than 4Gbps, possibly simply 1Gbps. However, according to this page, newer ER-X, ER-X-SFP, and EP-R6 EdgeRouters support offloading, so aggregating 4 gigabit ports should result in 4Gbps or very near it, allowing for some losses. So, in theory, if you had one of the newer EdgeRouters, and you didn't need certain mutually-exclusive protocols, and your network topology supported it, you could do the following Bond X ports on the router to support XGbps of bandwidth and also redundancy Bond X ports on the switch in the same way Connect X ethernet cables between the bonded router ports and the bonded switch ports Configure your VLANs on the single bonded interface on the router and switch I say this in a rather nebulous way; there are a lot of steps to this, clearly Through this configuration, all the VLANs would be able to take advantage of up to XGbps of bandwidth between the VLANs for allowed traffic, so that you wouldn't have saturated links using all 1Gbps and bottlenecked while other links used only a few Mbps and remained essentially unitized. I want to connect two routers to a switch which will then be connected to a modem. Now as far as I know a switch does not do network translation and this won't work with one IP address. So I bought two addresses at my ISP. Attached is a simple schematic that explains what I want to do. Is there any additional configuration needed on either of the routers Linksys WRT54GL to make this work or will it "Just Work"? slhck222k70 gold badges603 silver badges590 bronze badges asked May 29, 2012 at 958 5 This should just work. But i would make sure router 1 and router 2 client sides are on different subnets. answered May 29, 2012 at 1005 SibsterSibster8144 silver badges8 bronze badges 1 EDIT Apparently I was wrong, you can get two different IP addresses while using one Modem to connect. When I tried doing it, it didn't work, so maybe it depends on the ISP or the modem, or maybe I didn't configure it properly... You can use the Routers to manage the clients in two subnets and configure the routers separately. For example, you can use one router to configure a Wireless network and the other to configure a LAN network. answered May 29, 2012 at 1104 ShaharShahar3461 gold badge4 silver badges14 bronze badges 3 it's just work... because switch is device to share connection. You must setting routing table and NAT for routers. in the computer client, you must fill gateway with IP address of router... answered May 31, 2012 at 946 This question is really an old question, Hope you have already solved it, but I have some ideas to share with you. You are talking about 2 physically separate routers connecting to PoE switch. Yes, that is possible. You create 2 vlans on the switch. Lets say you create vlan 100 and 200, then add port,lets say 10 to vlan 100 and port 20 to vlan 200. Now you have one PC connected to port 10 and one PC connected to port 20. And don't forget to assign the IP address. answered Jul 11, 2016 at 235 Mark TwainMark Twain2541 silver badge5 bronze badges

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