Cisco Switch – How to Put Hosts in Own VLAN and Enable Ping

ciscocisco-catalystswitchvlan

That title is kind of cluttered so let me try and clear it up.

My equipment:

  • Two IP Codecs (I'll just refer to them as hosts from here on out)
  • Cisco 3560-x Catalyst Switch

The problem:

I work in radio IT, and I have one main AOIP switched network (192.168.87.0/24) for the majority of our end devices (nodes, automation machines, consoles, etc…), but (and had I been here when the network was designed, I would not have done it this way) there are two devices, our AOIP STLs that take audio from the studio to the transmitter. Those are my two hosts in question. Their network is 192.168.100.0/24, with the two hosts being 192.168.100.100/24 and 192.168.100.101/24. I want to ping 192.168.100.0 from 192.168.87.0. The management VLAN is VLAN 1 with the ip address 192.168.87.21.

What I've tried:

I know intervlan routing is probably the answer here, but I'm not sure how to implement it with just a lone switch.

I tried just a simple:

en
conf t
vlan 50
name Trango
exit
int vlan 50
descr Vlan for the Trango systems
ip add 192.168.100.105 255.255.255.0
no sh

And obviously I wasn't able to ping 192.168.100.105. What part of the process am I missing?

Best Answer

No routing or inter-Vlan is required when different hosts on same VLANs wants to communicate .

As per your configuration

int vlan 50

descr Vlan for the Trango systems

ip add 192.168.100.105 255.255.255.0

Different hosts connected to same Vlan should communicate without any routing between them .

If your are still unable to communicate check network adapter properties configuration on both hosts

Ip address

Subnet mask

Gateway

And check further correct Vlan is passed in switch port that is Vlan 50.

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