Plugged into wrong VLAN

Question

I was having an issue replacing an old switch with a PC 6224 (thread - Routing to internet). After troubleshooting and failing, I put the old switch back into place.   Well today network preformance was horrible and ping requests were being dropped all over the place. I then figured out a printer with a static IP was plugged into the wrong VLAN. Moving this over to the right VLAN took care of all issues.   Do i have something setup wrong that this would cause this much disruption in network traffic? Or is this the correct behavor?   thanks.

nlspears · Answer

How is the old switch setup? Does it have vlans set up on it? Nevertheless, I don't think plugging a printer or computer into the wrong vlan port will cause traffic to halt.

Cblair · Answer

The old switch has the same vlan's setup on it. It's an old D-Link DES3326. The default route of the old switch is 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 10.1.210.1.   I tried again last night and no it didn't work with everything plugged into the correct subnet. Things were acting better, but still couldn't reliably ping to google.com. I would drop about 80% of the packets.

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