devices on different VLANS communicating WITHOUT ANY ROUTING???

[banajahm]

hi,

i have 2 switches; a nortel passport 8610 (all ports are on VLAN 1) and a catalyst 3550 (all ports are on VLAN 4). both swithces are connected via cross cable and each switch has a PC connected to it and the two PCs can ping each other (both have IP addresses of the same range).

how can the two computers talk to each other even though they are on sepirate VLANS ????

[Richard Burts]

Mohammed

I believe that your understanding is correct.

HTH

Rick

[banajahm]

thanks a lot guys. this thread was really helpful and i learned a lot. great discussion

thanks again.

Mohammed

[Kevin Dorrell]

Mohammed,

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Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg

[rsharifi]

Ben,

Remember that VLANs are localy significant.

So, you can have 2 switches each with different VLAN names. Switch 1 VLAN could be named "yellow" and switch 2 VLAN could be named "red" as long as they are on the same sybnet, they will talk to each other.

Thanks,

Reza