Help for creating a scenario

[sudeesh12]

Please help me to create a scenario.

I have a Switch.It consists of three VLANS,Vlan1,

Vlan2 and Vlan3.I want to connect a server in this

switch.The vlans are not able toping each other,but

all the vlan members should be able to access the

server.how is it possible.

please suggest

thankx

Sudhi

[sebastian.wiegand]

Hi, Sudhi,

the easiest way is to use a router or an internal routing engine on your switch and route between your vlans.

Another thing might be to use PVlans. An explanation and configuration will u find in the following links.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk814/tk840/tsd_technology_support_sub-protocol_home.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps663/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00800dde94.html

Hope this is of any help.

Sebastian

[gwes]

You might also consider using a trunk connection to your server. That way you don’t have to buy a router. Please bear in mind that the server nic has to support ISL or IEEE 802.1q.

Interface fastethernet 0/1

Switchport trunk encapsulation (isl or iee 802.1q)

Switchport mode trunk

[wkumari]

The quick and dirty answer to this is to throw multiple NICs in the server and connect each NIC to each VLAN - it doesn't scale hugely well, but is very easy to implement.

A more elegant (but this depends on you comfort level with configuring switches) is to make a trunk port to the server and run 802.1q - keep in mind that this requires capable nics and all traffic to the server will be on one cable, so it is possible that you could see performance issues...