unable to ping

[TECH-JEFF]

Guys, is this possible?

I've setup vlan 10 for management which has an ip address of 10.155.10.3/24

I've set my pc to have a static ip of 10.155.10.55/24

I'm using a 2960 Cisco Catalyst switch. I've connected my pc on port 1, is it normal for the pc not to be able to do PING on the vlan 10? 

Thanks

Jeff

[Francesco Molino]

Hi 

How is your port configured? 

Stupid question but does your svi is up? What is the gateway setup on your pc?

Thanks 

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[TECH-JEFF]

@Francesco Molino

SVI or Switch Virtual Interface, to be honest not sure about this. First time I've heard of SVI. For the gateway, I didn't set one

@Julio Moisa

Actually it's pingable if I set to 

switchport access vlan 10. Sorry I forgot to explain further in the beginning. My objective was to have 

10.155.10.x /24 MGMT or management IP for switches

10.155.20.x /24

10.155.30.0 /24 and so on so forth (users/clients IP scope)

I'm going to have an L3 switch on top of these distribution switches for routing. 

Thanks

Jeff

[Francesco Molino · Accepted solution]

Ok. Svi is there interface vlan in layer 3. 

If you want to add a switch on top of it, you need to create trunk port on this switch and the top switch: 

Interface gi0/48

switchport mode trunk

Switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20, xxx --> all vlans needed. 

On your top switch, don't forget to enable ip routing command. 

Is that the information you're looking after our not? 

Thanks 

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[Julio E. Moisa]

Hi 

Thanks Jeff,

SVI = Switch Virtual Interface = Interface vlan 

Yeap in order to enable the communication between vlans you need to configure intervlan-routing, using a layer 3 device. It will allow you reach the other subnets remotely. 

:-)

[TECH-JEFF]

Hi,

Thanks for both inputs, I was just playing around with an L2 and L3 switch for some experimental using packet tracer. 

Have a great day ahead guys. 

Thanks

Jeff

[Julio E. Moisa]

Hi Jeff,

Is the PC connected to a port configured under the vlan 10? 

Example:

conf t
vlan 10
name Management

interface fa0/1
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 10
no shutdown

As Francisco mentioned, you can verify if the interface vlan 10 is up with:

show ip interface brief

or you can execute

interface vlan 10
shutdown
no shutdown

If it is still down, you should create the vlan like the example above. The SVI will work only if the vlan is created and assigned to a port or passing through a trunk interface. 

Hope it is useful.

:-)