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November 11th, 2016 06:00

IP configuration assistance on PowerConnect 6248

Hello everyone,

I inherited a pair of stacked PC 6248 switches. These two switches are active and in production. I am not near these switches as there are located in another state at one of our other company locations. I have no way of connecting to these switches remotely except by a putty session I currently have running via a serial connection from a laptop I'm remotely connected to. There is a site to site VPN from the office I reside in and this location where these two switches reside. I can access any other device on this remote network accept for this switch stack. I would like to access these switches remotely via putty by accessing them via their IP address on the Data Vlan that has been setup which is VLAN 10. I need assistance in doing this. I have attached a copy of the running config as I have made a few changes but still am unable to access these two switches.

I took a portion of the config and copied it below. The text in blue is what was originally configured on the stack. The text in BOLD red is some commands I have added. So the problem I am having is after adding the commands I thought I needed I still cannot access this switch stack locally on that network or remotely via the site to site VPN. For example ( I try to ping the switch stack IP 192.245.134.1 from our firewall which is on the same network with an IP of 192.245.134.254) or I try to ping from the switch stack in reverse from its IP on VLAN10 of 192.245.134.1 over to the firewall 192.245.134.254 and I still cannot. I have tried to ping this switch stack on it's IP of 192.245.134.1 from other workstations which are all on the same 192.245.134.x network and I still cannot. I am not too versed with this type of setup and I am obviously missing something. Can someone let me know what commands I am missing please? Below is additional information on the setup of the network and a portion of the running config.

IP network scheme for all devices (workstations/servers/printers/firewall etc.) is the following.

IP: 192.245.134.x

Mask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: 192.245.134.254

* IP addresses on this switch network are the following.

192.168.134.1 = This IP is on the default VLAN 1

192.245.134.1 = This is the IP address in on VLAN 10. I have assigned this IP to this stack.

* IP route on this switch "ip route 192.245.134.0 255.255.255.0 192.245.134.254" 

192.245.134.254 = This is the firewall on the network that I would like this switch stack to send all traffic to. This firewall is the gateway for the entire network.

configure
vlan database
vlan 10
vlan routing 10 1
vlan association subnet 192.245.134.0 255.255.255.0 10
exit
stack
member 1 2
member 2 2
exit
ip address 192.168.134.1 255.255.255.0
ip route 192.245.134.0 255.255.255.0 192.245.134.254
interface vlan 10
name "Default Data Network"
routing
ip address 192.245.134.1 255.255.255.0

exit
username "admin" password b0a158586299cf262c16b49d43d6f0dc level 15 encrypted

 

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November 11th, 2016 08:00

It looks like we could be dealing with a couple of things that are causing management access to not work.

- I believe that to access the VLAN IP addresses for management, the command # ip routing, need to be in place.

- The management VLAN on the 6200 switches is not routable. It is intended to be used as a form of OOB management. This would be why clients on VLAN 10 cannot access VLAN 1. There are two options here.

  • Move the management VLAN to a different VLAN using the command # ip address vlan XX.
  • Use a different VLAN for 192.168.134.0

Here is a KB article with some further info on this: http://dell.to/1FiQhu7

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