Noob vlan/switch question

[Bagley5777]

Greetings!

Say you are setting up a switch and vlans for a small business, and you want a vlan for data- .30, and a vlan for AV equipment- .40.  How would you setup the switchports when folks will move around, and AV equipment will move?  It's my understanding that when you plug a computer into a patch panel that leads to a switch port, that port is SET for either .30 or .40 vlan.  In other words, could you plug a AV device or a data device into any switch port and the network would know what vlan it's on, or do you setup physical grups of ports on the switch to handle vlan and other to handle AV?  Seems like  you could run out of ports?  THANKS IN ADVANCE!

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can set up a group for data and a group for AV.  So, for example, if you have a 48 port switch, you can set up 24 ports for data and 24 ports for AV. The other option would be to put both data and AV in the same vlan. This way you put all 48 ports in one vlan. As far as IP address assignment, you probably want the data to be DHCP and AV to be static as AV IPs don't usually change.

HTH

[Deepak Kumar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As @Reza Sharifi said, you can define the fixed port on the switch means 24 ports for the DATA VLAN or 24 ports for the AV. Those port count may change according to your user count and requirement in the area.

I have the second solution that you can configure MAC Based VLAN on the switch. So switch will check the MAC address of the client and will assign a required VLAN based on your VLAN and MAC group configuration.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/small-business-support-documents/configure-mac-based-vlan-groups-on-a-switch-through-the-cli/ta-p/3363856

As the third solution, You can configure Micro on the switch and Switch will auto assign VLAN based on device type (client).

Regards,

Deepak Kumar