Bridging 2 vlans on a 4000m Problem

[drvcrash]

Heres what IM trying to do

I have a 4000m with multiple vlans , I want to setup a customer vlan and then have a tranparent bandwidth shaping box between my Internet Vlan and the customer vlan. But for some reason I cant get it to work with my hp4000 i put a machine in the customer vlan and cant ping it. , if i do the exact same thing on my cisco 2924 it works fine . The bandiwdth box is bridging the vlans . and the ips are all in the same subnet. Right now I just took an old 3com hub and put the customers on it and bridge from that to the internet vlan but ill like to just use the ports in my 4000. Any body have an idea

 

[ralpheb]

drvcrash -

I think the problem is that you are bridging between two VLANs, which results in the 4000M address table "thrashing" as it first thinks that a particular end node is on one VLAN, then the other.

This is not a valid network design. If all of the end nodes are on the same subnet, then they should be in the same VLAN.

Why are you using two VLANs instead of one?

Ralph

 

[drvcrash]

I was using two vlans so i can run all my customer connections thru my bandwidth shaper box, I guess im stuck using a seperate switch/hub for the customers then , I just had extra ports on my 4000 and was trying to reduce clutter on my rack.