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February 26th, 2007 23:00

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Hi all

Just bought a switch and it is the first time I have had to handle
network stuff like this and need some help. the switch is a Planex
SWP-0224FP Layer2 Intelligent PoE Switch.

I have a router which has three nics, one for the outer (fixed IP) one
for the LAN and one for the DMZ.

The LAN IP nic is set to 192.168.0.1
The DMZ is set to 192.168.10.1
And the router (outer IP) is 192.168.100.1

Now with this switch I was hoping to use it for both the DMZ servers and
the pc's on the LAN...

The below instructions tell me to set the IP of the switch.
But I really am not sure what point (g) means...

So which ethernet cable to I plug into the main switching port?
The Lan interface or the DMZ?

Secondly shoudl I setup VLAN to properly separate both networks since
they use the same switch??

Sorry for the basic questions but have been dumped with this job and
have no idea...

Thanks

f) Type “net interface ip sw0 
   
   
    ”. For example, if your switch IP is 192.168.10.1 and the network mask is 255.255.255.0. Then you should type “net interface ip sw0 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0”. g) If the switch has to be managed across networks, then a default gateway or a static route entry is required. Type “net route static add 0.0.0.0 
    
      0.0.0.0 1” as your default route entry, as shown in Figure 5.
    
   
  

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12K Posts

February 27th, 2007 01:00

Is this a home setup and if so, why if the world did you buy something this complicated?

11 Posts

February 27th, 2007 02:00

No it is not a home setup it is in a company with minimal IT staff and I have been given the problem..

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February 28th, 2007 22:00

You can configure any two ports on the switch to be the "uplink" for DMZ and LAN. You probably don't have gigabit ports on your router, but unless you have a use for the gigabit ports, they make good, visually distincitive ports for uplink. So you might plug the first gigabit uplink port into the router LAN; and the other gigabit uplink port into the router DMZ. Then you need to assign which ports are in the DMZ vlan, and which are in the LAN vlan. If you connected the first uplink port to the router LAN, than list that port, and any other ports connected to "LAN" PCs, in your list of ports for the LAN vlan. Regarding (g), you only need to add a default route to the switch if you will be connecting to it to manage it from outside your network. If you will always manage it from your LAN or DMZ, then you don't need that step.
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