- Oct 21, 2011
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HI Guys,
Joined this forums as this was the first place that the forum memebers explained VLANs, Trunking and layer 3 switching! After days of reading about various stands, this post made it all go "Ding!"
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1846789
I have never had a need for VLAN, but I have a client that wants it set up in a particualar way...
I am to install 30 Access Points on 6 switches (Netgear GS110TP).
Each switch will POE 8 Access points each.
Each switch is daisy chained together with fibre on the 2 SFP ports
VLAN each access point on each switch
All loops back to a layer3 switch with a DSL point on the final VLAN
He wants the swtiches to be in a ring topology for fault tollerence (all connected together in a big loop) so if on fibre connection fails, they all continue to work).
My solution is to trunk all the fibre ports to carry VLAN traffic back to the Layer3 switch which will route all VLAN traffic to the VLAN the internet connection is on.
Dont ask me the reasons for this setup, I have been asked if I can do it. I will be setting up a test lab with 2 switches and a layer3 switch next weekk.
My first thought is that this will cause a packet storm based on the face the switches are a looped together. I have been reading about STP & MSPT, is this what I need to impletment such a topology?
Any tips on this kind of setup, guides, or even let me know if im barking up the wrong tree would be great!!!!
Im all up for the challenge but I am a noob that has only just grasped how this could be acheived!
Many thanks for your time in advance
Paul
Joined this forums as this was the first place that the forum memebers explained VLANs, Trunking and layer 3 switching! After days of reading about various stands, this post made it all go "Ding!"
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1846789
I have never had a need for VLAN, but I have a client that wants it set up in a particualar way...
I am to install 30 Access Points on 6 switches (Netgear GS110TP).
Each switch will POE 8 Access points each.
Each switch is daisy chained together with fibre on the 2 SFP ports
VLAN each access point on each switch
All loops back to a layer3 switch with a DSL point on the final VLAN
He wants the swtiches to be in a ring topology for fault tollerence (all connected together in a big loop) so if on fibre connection fails, they all continue to work).
My solution is to trunk all the fibre ports to carry VLAN traffic back to the Layer3 switch which will route all VLAN traffic to the VLAN the internet connection is on.
Dont ask me the reasons for this setup, I have been asked if I can do it. I will be setting up a test lab with 2 switches and a layer3 switch next weekk.
My first thought is that this will cause a packet storm based on the face the switches are a looped together. I have been reading about STP & MSPT, is this what I need to impletment such a topology?
Any tips on this kind of setup, guides, or even let me know if im barking up the wrong tree would be great!!!!
Im all up for the challenge but I am a noob that has only just grasped how this could be acheived!
Many thanks for your time in advance
Paul