DarthPanda
Technical User
Hi Guys,
This series of routers has a built in switch. I understand that to enable routing the switch ports must become part of a configured vlan on fe0,fe1,fe2 and fe3. Fe4 does not have a layer 2 port and is layer 3 only. On the device fe4 is clearly labelled 'WAN'. My question is, to enable routing from the LAN out to the WAN, must I create a virtual connection from the vlan to fe4? Would this involve configuring the dot1q protocol on fe4 or possibly a trunking command? If this were a seperate physical router and switch, all I would need to do is plug the switch in to the router with a physical cable. I guess I need to work out how to do this virtually.
Thanks
This series of routers has a built in switch. I understand that to enable routing the switch ports must become part of a configured vlan on fe0,fe1,fe2 and fe3. Fe4 does not have a layer 2 port and is layer 3 only. On the device fe4 is clearly labelled 'WAN'. My question is, to enable routing from the LAN out to the WAN, must I create a virtual connection from the vlan to fe4? Would this involve configuring the dot1q protocol on fe4 or possibly a trunking command? If this were a seperate physical router and switch, all I would need to do is plug the switch in to the router with a physical cable. I guess I need to work out how to do this virtually.
Thanks