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VLAN for Wifi using 3COM 4070 and 4400s

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nlandas

IS-IT--Management
Jun 4, 2007
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Hello everyone,

I'm not new to the concept of VLANs/routing but I am to their actual implementation. I've been reading everything I can find on the subject and I'm wondering if anyone here could just help me get going on a fairly simple implementation.

I'd like to keep all of my network on the default untagged VLAN 1 and create a VLAN 2 that can't access anything on VLAN 1 but does have access to the Internet. I only have one Internet connection and gateway from my ISP. My goal is to use 3COM 8760s to have a WEP radio profile that only gets Internet access (PUT IN VLAN 2) and a WPA profile that gets full access to all devices and the Internet(put on VLAN 1).

I was hoping it would be as simple as setting up UDP Helper to allow DHCP to be accessed via both VLAN 1 & 2. Setting up the two tagged VLANs on the necessary ports and making the Internet connection a tagged member of both VLANs. However, it seems that the Internet connection can only be in one VLAN. So it seems that that devices on VLAN 2 can't access it. If I set up routing between VLAN 1 and VLAN 2 then everything on VLAN 2 has access to VLAN 1 and ACLs in the 4070 only seem to support IPs not ports. If I need to clarify I can certainly add more details.

Can anyone give me an easy scenario using my 4070 with 4400s attached to allow me to set up a secondary VLAN that only has Internet access?

IP- 172.18.180.0
SUBNET - 255.255.252.0
GATEWAY - 172.18.180.1
DHCP SERVER - 172.18.180.51

Simple flow....
8760->[VLAN 1 or 2 based on AUTHENTICATION used]->4400->[TAGGED LINK VLAN 1/VLAN 2]->4070->(SINGLE INTERNET CONNECTION. THE FIREWALL IS OUTSIDE MY CONTROL ON THE ISP SIDE - NORTEL ISP SWITCH.)

Thank you any help for steering me in the rigth direction.
 
In case someone else is looking for the information out there.

No one has given me any input on this so after spending a lot of time reading and trying different scenarios I've determined without an additional ISP connection/gateway or a switch upstream of my 4070 that can handle port based ACL filtering this can't be done. The 4070 simply has no way to isolate the traffic other than Internet for the VLAN 2, it'll just route everything to VLAN 1.

Looks like we need to upgrade to the 5500G-EI SFPs to replace the 4070s. They handle port based ACL filtering.
 
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