I am setting up a vlan on my 3com switch. The switch is a 4200g 48 port.
I have set up 3 vlans i have the generic vlan1 and I have created 2 other vlans 2 and 3.
I have manually give them their ip range. However when I connect a device to the ports that have been setup for the vlans it does not connect to the network. Should this happen when a device is attached the vlans that i have setup?
Has anyone on here had any experience on setting up a vlan on a 3com switch?
Best Answer
Depends on the port mode. A VLAN is a seperate network. You should put a port in 'access' mode on the switch when connecting a host. Trunk mode to connect 2 switches and allow traffic of multiple vlan's over the port.
The host should be in the same network as other hosts in that vlan. A vlan does not work as DHCP server. So hosts will have to find a DHCP in the same vlan or have static IP's.
Try giving the hosts a static ip. Connect the host to a port that has been set-up in the correct VLAN. Then try to ping the VLAN ip of the switch.
Also, keep in mind that it takes a few seconds for the switch port to go into forwarding state ( sometimes you can see this by the LED's going from orange to green). This might take up to 30 - 45 seconds after plugging in the LAN cable.