Simulating Inter-Vlan-Routing

[grichardson661]

Hey,

Within the next few weeks i'll be setting up trunking between my Switches and to the Router to work with ROAS. I'll also be looking into routing between VLANS but i dont have enough machines to stick in each VLAN to ping and test. I know of the 'no keepalive' on a ethernet interface on a router but no sure how i can acomplish this on a switch on a VLAN.

I guess this must be possible but i dont have the kit yet to play around with, its on route.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Garry

[andrew.prince]

Garry,

You could do this with 1 x router, 1 x switch and 2 x PC's/Laptops?

You could do this with a router on a stick topology

HTH.

[grichardson661]

Hi Andrew, thanks for the relpy. Yeah i already have that in mind.

I want to configure a more complex topology with multiple VLANS. Ideally, what i want is to be able to test routing between VLANS but with out actully connecting a PC in each VLAN. Is this possible?

Thanks, Garry

[andrew.prince]

Well yes - you could use 2 x routers, and 1 x switch.

Use the switch as the layer 3 device, and create various vlans. The on the 2 routers, create layer 3 interfaces - some on one router, some on the other and run a routing protocol or just static routes to config pings?

[grichardson661]

Thanks Andrew, i'll give it a bash when my new router arrvies.

[andrew.prince]

np - glad to help.