Hello all,
I'm not new to the IT field, but to VLANs I am. ANy help would greatly be appreicated. I have attached a diagram of what I am about to explain and what I am trying to accomplish. Also I will provide as much detail as possible so please forgive this for being a little long.
We have (3) 3com 4200G 48 port switches (Software OS V3.01.00s56 )
Switch 1 is the main switch in our server room.
Switch 2 and 3 are each in spearate buildings.
All switches are uplinked through 1gb fiber via gbic module.
They are not clustered and they are set to default as far as any VLAN settings (I haven't created VLANs and I they are all on VLAN ID 1 - Name VLAN0001 by default). All ports on all switches are untagged by default.
We are installing new wireless APs and we need to implement a GUEST SSID. The APs (Ubiquiti Unifi) support this as well as allows the use of VLANs to separate the guest network and the private LAN. I'd like the private LAN to remain as is (if possible with this scenerio) and configre a new VALN (VLAN2) for the guest AP to use so they can access the internet but will not be able to access the private LAN.
Here is my understanding of what I need to do to accomplish this:
* Leave VLAN1 as is (I may be wrong here).
* Create VLAN2 on all switches and configure each port my APs will connect to as "Hybrid" ports so both VLAN1 and 2 can work on those ports.
Configure all ports uplinking the switches as Hybrid ports for VLAN 1 and 2 as well as enable tagging on the uplink ports.
On our main switch (switch1) I will enable a port dedicated to VLAN2 only and connect that port to my firewall interface which will handle internet access and DHCP addressing for VLAN2 only.
Is my general iunderstanding of the requirments fairly close and does anyone have 4200G specific experience to advise on setting up the new VLAN config?
I'm not new to the IT field, but to VLANs I am. ANy help would greatly be appreicated. I have attached a diagram of what I am about to explain and what I am trying to accomplish. Also I will provide as much detail as possible so please forgive this for being a little long.
We have (3) 3com 4200G 48 port switches (Software OS V3.01.00s56 )
Switch 1 is the main switch in our server room.
Switch 2 and 3 are each in spearate buildings.
All switches are uplinked through 1gb fiber via gbic module.
They are not clustered and they are set to default as far as any VLAN settings (I haven't created VLANs and I they are all on VLAN ID 1 - Name VLAN0001 by default). All ports on all switches are untagged by default.
We are installing new wireless APs and we need to implement a GUEST SSID. The APs (Ubiquiti Unifi) support this as well as allows the use of VLANs to separate the guest network and the private LAN. I'd like the private LAN to remain as is (if possible with this scenerio) and configre a new VALN (VLAN2) for the guest AP to use so they can access the internet but will not be able to access the private LAN.
Here is my understanding of what I need to do to accomplish this:
* Leave VLAN1 as is (I may be wrong here).
* Create VLAN2 on all switches and configure each port my APs will connect to as "Hybrid" ports so both VLAN1 and 2 can work on those ports.
Configure all ports uplinking the switches as Hybrid ports for VLAN 1 and 2 as well as enable tagging on the uplink ports.
On our main switch (switch1) I will enable a port dedicated to VLAN2 only and connect that port to my firewall interface which will handle internet access and DHCP addressing for VLAN2 only.
Is my general iunderstanding of the requirments fairly close and does anyone have 4200G specific experience to advise on setting up the new VLAN config?