On 12/21/2011 05:24 PM, Wayne Lee wrote:
> Hello
>
> Large snip
>
>
>> I tried that to no avail... I will have a play with it again at work
>> tomorrow and see how it goes. I'll let you know how successful I am.
>>
>> Cheers for all your help guys :)
>>
>> Steven
>>
> The normal way to achieve this is to make one of the ports a trunk
> port and connect this to the router. The trunk port will be a member
> of all the vlans in tagged mode. Add a sub interface on the router per
> vlan (make sure the vlan ID's match) and then the router will handle
> all of the routing and the switches will just switch. Unless it a full
> layer 3 switch it will not have the routing capabilities.
>
> If you don't have root/admin access to the router then use a spare
> Linux box which supports vlans very well.
This sounds very promising... The only thing I have not tried as yet and
it makes sense... Trunk port! I found out today that my router also
supports VLAN tagging so this could be another option if all else fails.
I didn't get a chance to do this today, but I definitely will tomorrow,
so I'll post my results.
Cheers
>
> Regards
>
>
> Wayne
>
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