Ok it appears that the depth that im going to study CCNA is a little to far right now. but what im trying to do is get a little hands on in VLANs. so i thought i would setup 4 VLANs on my 1924 ive got them setup but im not sure what else i need to do. ive got ports 1-6 (1) 7-12 (2) 13-19 (3) 20-24 (4) (x)=VLAN number. Ive got port A set to be the trunk port but when i connect the router to the trunked port I get no connectivity. if i change this and plug the router into VLAN 1 I get connectivity so know im a little confused if the router is tied to VLAN 1 how the heck can i ever route traffic to VLANs 2-4. I thought that was the purpose behind the Trunked port. to be able to allow multiple VLANs to communicate. or am i missing the whole point in the understanding of trunked ports.

Any help would be appreciated


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Although you haven't said in your post, I'm gonna guess your switch port is 100M and the router is 10M. You won't even get link with that speed mismatch. Believe you will find you need a fastethernet port on the router to make this work.

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ya i guess I should have picked up on that. but I'm still learning.

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Further to Yankee's comments; you will need to configure your switch such that the trunking port also allows your other VLANs across it - VLAN 1 is allowed by default cos it is generally the management VLAN. Not sure of the command syntax, but use ISL trunking. In addition, you will need to configure on your router, 'interface vlan x' for all your vlans, and give each vlan an ip address. That way, the router does the routing between the VLANs based on the VLAN's ip address. Try this Cisco for more details:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td...onfig/vlans.htm

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Originally posted by ls431o28
ya i guess I should have picked up on that. but I'm still learning.

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Learning is a good thing!

We have a saying at work: "I haven't really learned it, till I have broke it first."

Lemme add one more thing.... Both good techs and bad techs make errors and break things sometimes, but the difference is that a good tech realizes what he did and corrects it immediately. A bad tech doesn't.

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