Proper way to setup multiple vlans to desktop?

Question

I have 3 3324's I have vlan's 1,10,20,30. They cant not see one another. I need my desktop to be on all the of vlans. I have a Broadcom Netxtreme gigbit adapter in my workstation. What is the trick to setting up my workstation to be on all the vlans? What Do I set the port in the switch to. I had it set to general and had vlan 1 untagged and 10,20,30 tagged. I then setup my nic with those vlans and it made 3 virtual nics and its seems to work but things on the network started acting screwy after i did that. SO I figure I missed something

ToeSide · Answer

Hi drvcrash you require a L3 device to route between the 4 Vlans you have created.

drvcrash · Answer

I dont want to route. I just want to have my workstation use all 4 vlans on the same nic instead of using 4 nics and four switch ports. I just need access to each vlan to manage devices.

nlspears · Answer

I believe the issue is because the switch works with the mac of the nic card and only refers to the ip when it needs to route (if it has those capabilities).

Message Edited by nlspears on 04-24-2007 02:32 PM

bh1633 · Answer

Vlans 10,20,30 need to be tagged coming out of your NIC.   The pvid on the switch port connected to you NIC needs to be 1.   Make sure that the NIC is not set to route between these interfaces.  This would make your network start to act screwy.   Post your switch configuration and the output of the DOS 'ipconfig' command.

ToeSide · Answer

As you are only using this for administration purposes and not high volumes of traffic, you could use port overlapping or if your workstation NIC supports 802.1q.   Please look at this thread for all the information you'd require:     http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pc_managed&message.id=2487

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