Hi. My name is Samuel and I'm making a few changes in the network infrastructure of our company but to be honest, I don't have to many idea about the VLANS, is the first time that I try to create something like that. 

I'm creating a second IP range for the people how is not part of the company, so we are going to have:

• 172.16.X.X: for internal user and resources 
• 172.17.X.X: for external users.

The DHCP is already config and is working correctly, so if you choose any of these ranges manually is working corretly the config and you have Internet and access to the different services in each network. 

I'm now try to assign the IP range to each port in the swich (PowerConnect 3548) using VLANS. All sounds fine but the result all the time is a wired ip in the computer connected to that port. The steps that I'm using are this:

• Switch/VLAN/VLAN membership. I'm creating the new VLAN 2 in this point
• System/IP Adressing/iPv4 adressing. I'm adding in this point the second range (172.17.X.X) and adding to the VLAN2 
• Now I change the port in the Switch/VLAN/Vlan membership to VLAN2
• In port settings I select the port as General and VID as 2 

But when I connect any device to that port the IP range that the computer receive is 169.254.23.247. I don't know what more to do, what more things try and what more options try. The result is the same all the time. 

Any kind of help? Something that I'm missing?

Thanks a lot, Sam.