Is anyone out there?

[Welby24]

I have been watching several threads and have created one of my own in the past 24 hours. I have not seen any of them get responses.

Am I somehow not getting my threads updated or is the response time really this slow on this forum?

 

[jimbopalmer]

I thinks we only answer questions we think we understand, I would never have read yours as I have never nested a VLAN and am not sure I have ever heard that it was possible. Fortunately, when I did read it, you do not want nested VLANs anyway.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[Welby24]

Thanks for your response. I probably didn's explain my situation very well. When I saw that none of the threads seemed to be getting updated, I thought something might be wrong. I think I confused several individual on another forum with my problem so I tried to explain again. Look at this second explanation and see if it makes any more scense to you.
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I work for a school system that has 33 schools. At each location my ISP is handing me a Gig connection on copper. What I have found out is that each school is leading back to a layer 3 switch and that each locations data is separated by VLAN. So school 1 might be VLAN 2, school 2 will be VLAN 3, school 3 will be on VLAN 4, and so on, and so on.

We had bought layer 3 Cisco switches for each location. The idea being that each location will be segmented into several VLANs. Office staff will be on say VLAN 2, teachers on VLAN 3, and students on VLAN 4, and I will be able to route data between these VLANs. Keep in mind that one school’s VLANs have nothing to do with another. The office VLAN in school 1 does not know anything about the office VLAN in school 2 and so forth.

So say for school 2, my frames going back and forth with the ISP are tagged for VLAN 3. I will be taking that connection into my own layer 3 device and attempting to segment the LAN with my own VLANs again tagging the frames for VLAN 2, 3, 4, and so forth.

So it seems to me that data going out from a school will be tagged by my device as being in a particular VLAN, and then tagged by my ISP as being in another particular VLAN. My question is will this scenario work? Will the ISP VLAN even know that I have several VLANs set-up under it? Will I have a problem with frame size as some data will be double tagged?

I hope this makes a little more sense. Thanks for any info or suggestions.