VLANS How To ?????

Question

I am very unfamiliar with VLAN's but my company contracted me out for a job where they are required, 1 person gave me a basic explanation of what they are and how they work and told me I would need powerconnect 3448's for this job (so I purchased them) now here are my questions -   How do I do it?    There will be a total of 38 seperate VLANs (using 2 powerconnect 3448s)   They do not need to access each other, but they need to all access the internet.    I would like if they could all be on different subnets (37 VLANS will be only 2 ports, 1 VLAN will be 20 ports)   I have no clue what I am doing, read the users guide 3 times over I am just having issues with how to program the ports so that they only see the other ports in their VLAN and see the ports that are connected to the internet.   Please help.   Thanks Mel

ptc-cmcbride · Answer

You're going to need to route between the VLANs to get them connected to an Internet router or firewall. To accomplish this you're going to need a layer-3 switch such as a 6024, or a Router with an ethernet port that's configured for 802.1q trunking with 37 sub-interfaces. The 3448 will not route between the VLANs, you have to trunk the traffic to something that can.

DELL-Cuong N. · Answer

Here is a link to some whitepaper which may help you. Take a look at the paper on VLAN segmentation & VLAN routing.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/en/whitepapers?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~tab=3

Cuong.

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