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Trunk remote switches without down time

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wilson2468

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Jun 2, 2006
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I have 4503 switches that have numerous 3com switches uplinked. There are several subnets being uplinked all in vlan 1 (flat network).

I am in the process of seperating these in to vlans per each subnet.

My problem is this:

Some of the switches are spread out across a large campus and connected thru fiber.

Is there a way for me to set up the trunk ports and seperate everything into the vlans without taking things down?

My concern is, once I create the vlans for the different subnets, all other remote sites will loose connectivity (because they are uplinked with access ports at the moment, uplinking the different subnets)unitl I can set up the trunk ports on them also, and it is going to take a while to get to everything (days).

Is there a quick solution to this problem?
 
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