I have been handed a fun job at work of breaking up a flat network into 4 vlans. This is my first "beginning to end" network project and I have a pretty good idea of what needs to happen, but its been my experience that what I have learned from books and what actually needs to happen can be different. My rough plan is below, details left out for brevity.
- ID nodes via mac address; find this mac address in the switch(s) and document which port that mac is associated with, then assign it to a VLAN.
- Setup Router on a stick using a sophos firewall that is in place. ROAS is due to budget constraints, they turned down the L3 switch proposal. I have setup this config before and don't have any questions about this part.
- The Microsoft server (2008R2) will handle DHCP for each vlan. I have a working multi-vlan DHCP server setup I can clone from another client to make this work and it seems pretty straight forward (but again, assumptions like this can be what slows me down). Any advice on setting this up?
I have not received credentials to the switches yet, so I cant see the configs but they are "factory" settings I have been told. They have two core switches (SG200s) and one access layer switch (unknown type, maybe SG200). The access layer switch will have all ports in one vlan.
- I am a little in the dark on what will happen with the access switch. I know it will need to trunk to the core and the trunk will need to pass the single VLAN needed (which I can configure), can I just leave this as an "open" trunk?
Thats the big pieces that I can think of at this time, I need to put it on paper and pick it apart. I would like to see some feedback from anyone else though, its very helpful when you are starting from nothing. Any considerations before I go to far down this road...?
