Creating Management Network

[gauravdhingra2009]

Hi,

I would like to create management network in my environment, currently we have 3750 and act as layer 2 for other vlans(DMZ,Internal), can i create new manemennt vlan that only act as layer 3 ( enable ip routing) or if i enable ip routing  will it affect all other vlan's also?

Please advise, if yes what would be the configuration we need to have in cisco 3750.

thanks

[Marvin Rhoads]

If you don't create any Layer 3 interface (Switch Virtual Interface or SVI) in your existing VLANs, they will not be affected by enabling IP routing.

So create your new_vlan in conf mode, vlan. That gives you a layer 2 vlan. Then go into conf mode, interface and create "interface vlan new_vlan" with IP address etc. You now have a SVI in the VLAN and it should be up/up.

Of course IP routing doesn't have any real function until you have at least two routed interfaces since routing is fundamentally about going from one network to another.

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