Not sure from which IOS you upgraded your switch. If you have upgraded from post 12.2(50) to any of the latest IOS images, there is a firmware/microcode upgrade in them. Usually it takes about 5 min for a standalone switch to boot (First time). Durin...

Will the above work?NO. Router will send the traffic to switch but switch will drop it. ARP will also not get resolved properly. Also all packets (except in vlan1) will be dropped as invalid packets (due to presence of dot1q tag in them).also if i ma...

Thanks for the clarification.Switchport access vlan 50   --  This command is used when a port is configured as access.Port will allow ONLY vlan 50 traffic only. No other vlan traffic will be allowed.switchport trunk native vlan 50 - This command is u...

From your description, you want to route multiple subnets. There are two ways to do it.Router on a stick configuration:- Need to create a sub-interface for every vlan you want to route. 1. Router config:int fa0/1no ip addressint fa0/1.1ip address 172...

Dave,By default, native vlan is 1. Not sure what you meant by 'simple vlan', but you can use any vlan as native vlan as long as it is configured same on both sides of the link.Traffic in native vlan goes untagged. Typically it is either the managment...