GS748TS & vLan Trunks

[ThomasMc]

Anyone got any experience with these as am having some difficulty trying to setup a vlan trunk via there lovely web interface, my web searches haven't turned much up apart from that cisco trunks and netgear trunks are 2 diffrent things

Thanks in advance

[UCHEEKYMONKEY]

what s/w are you using to set up the virtual Lan?

oops sorry Thomas, misread that post. I thought you were setting up a vlan with vmware. We use these all the time at work, but I see your referring to that web interface. Which is total pants! I had a simliar problem with netgear and belkin router using their software interface to setup and configure the ports. In the end I used IE.

[UCHEEKYMONKEY]

Originally Posted by ThomasMc

Anyone got any experience with these as am having some difficulty try to setup a vlan trunk via there lovely web interface, my web searches haven't turned much up apart from that cisco trunks and netgear trunks are 2 diffrent things

Thanks in advance

Can you give us some more details, such as error message, screen shots or what exactly your having a problem with? is it the settings, the ports? Or the fact you can't connect??

[ThomasMc]

Sorry UCM ofcource i can, I'm messing about with tagged vlans. The equipment I'm using is a Cisco 877 Sec router and 1 Netgear GS748TS Smart Switch, from my understanding i need to add 1 port(uplink port to router) to all vlan(trunk) and tag the traffic, this is where I'm having the problem as in the GS748TS web interface there is no way that i can see to achive this

[Edit]
I suppose i could be getting confused due to my lack of knowledge on vlans

I can tag port 1(router attached) on all the vlans via the vlan membership configuration page but not sure that this automatically trunks it

[UCHEEKYMONKEY]

Do you know what firmware version you have on the smart switch. just having a lookie at the specs of the switch I sure the uplink was automatic???

Netgear GS748TS ProInterfaces:

GS724TS: 24 10/100/1000 Mbps switching ports
GS748TS: 48 10/100/1000 Mbps switching ports
4 Built-in shared SFP Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports for 100/1000 Mbps connectivity
Auto-sensing and auto-negotiating capabilities for all copper ports
Auto Uplink™ on all ports to make the right connection Administrative Switch Management:

IEEE 8021.Q VLAN (128 groups, Static)
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)
Port-based QoS
IEEE 802.3ad Static or Dynamic Link Aggregation (LACP)
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
SNMP v1, v2c, v3
RFC 1213 MIB II
RFC 1643 Ethernet Interface MIB
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
RFC 2131 DHCP client
IEEE 802.1x (RADIUS)
Access Control List (ACL)
Layer 3 and 4-based Quality of Service (QoS)
TACACS+
Port-based security by locked MAC addresses
Storm control for broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast packets
Port-based ingress/egress rate limiting
SNTP
RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9
Private Enterprise MIB
Port Mirroring Support
Cable test
Web-based configuration
Configuration Backup/Restore
Password Access Control
Firmware upgradeable
Safe 48-port Stackable Smart Gigabit Switch W/ 4 x SFP ports

SOURCE

Have you seen the review?

"An intuitive, web-browser interface offers simple switch management, making it a snap to monitor switch performance, configure ports, even set up trunks, VLANs, and prioritization" that bit cracks me

[r.h.lee]

Originally Posted by ThomasMc

Sorry UCM ofcource i can, I'm messing about with tagged vlans. The equipment I'm using is a Cisco 877 Sec router and 1 Netgear GS748TS Smart Switch, from my understanding i need to add 1 port(uplink port to router) to all vlan(trunk) and tag the traffic, this is where I'm having the problem as in the GS748TS web interface there is no way that i can see to achive this

ThomasMc,

Questions:

1. How have you determined that you have a problem?
2. What IOS version is running on the Cisco 877 router?
3. How did you determine that the Netgear GS748TS Smart Switch supports VLANs?

[UCHEEKYMONKEY]

Originally Posted by r.h.lee

ThomasMc,

Questions:

1. How have you determined that you have a problem?
2. What IOS version is running on the Cisco 877 router?
3. How did you determine that the Netgear GS748TS Smart Switch supports VLANs?

Err it does say in the spec's "IEEE 8021.Q VLAN (128 groups, Static) "

Although I'm not sure if the cisco router supports 8021.Q???

Just having a look on google for it?

[ThomasMc]

Originally Posted by r.h.lee

ThomasMc,

Questions:

1. How have you determined that you have a problem?
2. What IOS version is running on the Cisco 877 router?
3. How did you determine that the Netgear GS748TS Smart Switch supports VLANs?

Answers:

1. 3 out of 4 vlans are not being serviced by the routers DHCP, Internet etc etc
   ping tests on the vlans reveal no traffic is passing between vlans.
2. 12.4 T.
3. After reading the Data sheet and user manual i determined that vlans where supported, although they mentioned trunking in these documents i have found out that it refers to a Netgear LAG(Link aggregation) port function or Port Teaming.

[UCHEEKYMONKEY]

OK I can't find the exacy specs on the 877 but found the specs on the 870 series..

Cisco 870 Series Integrated Services Routers for Small Offices

EDit: sorry just found it halfway down the page:_ General Router Features
• 4 802.1q VLANs on Advanced IP Services IOS image

[ThomasMc]

its a
CISCO877-SEC-K9 -- Cisco 877 ADSL Security Bundle with PLUS Feature Set

[Sparky]

Do you not need to create access control lists between the VLANs if they have to talk to each other? Can you get any traffic from a VLAN onto the tinternet?

[ThomasMc]

Not sure about the ACL, but when i run the vlans native and use a seperate physical interface for all 4 of them on the router without the switch each client on the interface gets the correct ip for that vlan and tinternet is A ok and all vlans can talk(with the same ACL's), when i let cisco handle the trunking but i want to run all the vlans over a single link to the router, so in my understanding the trunking should be done at switch level

[edit]
i use SVI's on the cisco vlan config that should pass the traffic as far as the router is concerned

[r.h.lee]

ThomasMc,

Originally Posted by ThomasMc

Answers:

1. 3 out of 4 vlans are not being serviced by the routers DHCP, Internet etc etc
   ping tests on the vlans reveal no traffic is passing between vlans.
2. 12.4 T.
3. After reading the Data sheet and user manual i determined that vlans where supported, although they mentioned trunking in these documents i have found out that it refers to a Netgear LAG(Link aggregation) port function or Port Teaming.

Exactly which version of Cisco IOS, including the number and letter in parenthesis after the 12.4T? Do a "#show version" on the Cisco 877 to find out.

[r.h.lee]

Originally Posted by UCHEEKYMONKEY

Err it does say in the spec's "IEEE 8021.Q VLAN (128 groups, Static) "

Although I'm not sure if the cisco router supports 8021.Q???

Just having a look on google for it?

UCHEEKYMONKEY,

IEEE does not have a "8021.Q" standard. They do have a "802.1q" standard. When you're referring to "spec's," are you talking about the Cisco 877 router or the Netgear GS748TS Smart Switch?

[ThomasMc]

It reads 12.4(6)T9, Release Software (fc2)