Hi guys,
In our environment we work with a router on stick kind of setup combined with HA.
Now, recently we added a new switch (Catalyst 9500) in our network with 40Gbps uplink and 10Gbps connections straight to some of our clients.
Now this is partially our setup and the routing that i'd like to talk about :
Our firewall goes to multiple switches, either for our clients, to our servers, and others. Clients have their own set of switches and so do our servers.
Now, when you look at the picture you can see 3 clients to a switch. In my case that would be our new Catalyst 9500. That goes to a LAN core switch and then to the firewall (which also serves as router btw).
Now that all works fine. What we would like to do is the following :
When you look at the bottom right server called file. It is both connected to our server switch and to the 9500 catalyst switch.
The server switch is connected to a regular 1Gbps connection on the server, while the catalyst is connected to a 40Gbps ethernet connection.
Normally, all of our user (even the ones that are not on this picture) go to the Firewall/Router, then to the server switch and so access the file server.
What we would like for those 3 clients, is that they do NOT go to the firewall/router but instead take a shortcut straight to the file server over 40Gbps and this is where i am stuck.
For the clients we work with VLAN's (lets say VLAN 45 for the clients) and the servers just work on the default vlan 1. There are firewall rules in place to keep them separated and safe.
What i did so far is i gave ForyGigabitEthernet 1/1/2 a static IP and i used that IP as the gateway on the fileserver and that connection works. I can ping the server from the 9500 and i can ping the interface on the switch from the server.
What i cannot is ping the server from the clients. I made an static ip route towards the server but i dont know how to get the clients towards the server instead of going towards the firewall/router.
Here is the config i can give :
File server config :
IP : 10.32.1.98 255.255.255.0
Default gateway : 10.32.1.97
interface FortyGigabitEthernet1/1/2
description CONNECTIE FILESERVER -> 10.32.1.98
no switchport
ip address 10.32.1.97 255.255.255.0
ip route 10.32.1.98 255.255.255.255 FortyGigabitEthernet1/1/2 (in the hope to force trafic towards that ip over this port).
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My main question, how do i get this done without screwing both networks, the default gateway for all of the clients is the firewall/router : 10.32.45.2
I hope i gave all the information needed to solve this puzzle ^^ i feel like i'm missing a basic piece of networking but i'm looking over it.
If you guys could help that would be awesome!
Greetings & thanks in advance,
Damon
