Issue creating a VLAN on a Switchport connected to a wireless bridge. 1

[dannyyo]

I am in the process of planning and designing a vlan infrastructure and I am wondering how to configure one of the ports on the switch. This one port on the switch is connected to a wireless bridge and communicates across the street to another building with a wireless bridge. There the wireless bridge is connected to a switch and the VOIP phones and the computers are connected to this switch. The switches at both buildings are Cisco 3560 POE switches. I'd liked to create a VLAN that separates the ip phone and data. How would I configure the local port on the switch that's connected to the wireless bridge? I thought maybe it'd be a trunk, but it's not being connected to a router.

Hope someone can help me...thanks in advance.

 

[dannyyo]

I've looked at the default gateways...it looked like. Let me as you this, if I create a tunnel to the router and have all the vlans be routed via the router, will it be significantly slower than having it routed on the switch? Assuming you are using the same equipment to create either senarios?

 

[vipergg]

Really depends on your traffic patterns . If you have a lot of traffic and file transfers going between those subnets then having a router do it would probably slow it down considerably compared to having the 3750 hardware switch all the traffic internally . Generally small router thruput is quite a bit less than a L3 switch.

 

[dannyyo]

I've got a good understanding of InterVLAN routing using the subinterfaces. Got everything working the way it should. Today, I decided to see if I can get the old configuration of having the 3750 do the routing. I've finally figured it out. The switchport that connects to the router needs to be configured for Layer 3, not a "TRUNK", not a "Access link". You have to issue "no switchport" command to the interface and give it an ip address that's in the same subnet as the router. Thank you all for your suggestions. It really helped me to think and figure out my problem.