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July 13th, 2012 15:00

Shutting down a VLAN...

We are preparing our disaster recovery site to be able to fail over from our production site.  In order to do this, we need to be able to set up equivelant VLANs in the core DR switch that will host the same IP subnets currently served by our production site.  If I assign it an IP address, I would like to be able to shut it down so that it doesn't conflict with the production site.  Anybody have  a clue on how to do this?

Thanks in advance!
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    Posted July 13th, 2012 16:00

    What switch model are you trying to configure this on?  I’m not familiar with a way to shutdown a VLAN without deleting it.

    62xx(config-if-vlan200)#?

    bandwidth                Configure Bandwidth.

    bridge                   Configure bridge table.

    encapsulation            Configure interface link layer encapsulation type.

    exit                     To exit from the mode.

    ip                       Configure IP parameters.

    ipv6                     Configure IPv6 parameters.

    mac                      Configure MAC Access List group parameters.

    name                     Configure an optional VLAN Name.

    routing                  Enables routing for an interface, Use no form to disable.

    Have you looked into setting up VRRP for a disaster recovery plan?

    VRRP

    The Virtual Router Redundancy (VRRP) protocol is designed to handle default router failures by

    providing a scheme to dynamically elect a backup router. The driving force was to minimize “black hole”

    periods due to the failure of the default gateway router during which all traffic directed towards it is lost

    until the failure is detected. Though static configuration of default routes is popular, such an approach is

    susceptible to a single point of failure when the default router fails. VRRP advocates the concept of a

    “virtual router” associated with one or more IP Addresses that serve as default gateways. In the event that

    the VRRP Router controlling these IP Addresses (formally known as the Master) fails, the group of IP

    Addresses and the default forwarding role is taken over by a Backup VRRP Router.

    The VRRP Router Configuration feature enables interface and route tracking. Use VRRP tracking to

    ensure the best VRRP router is Master for the group.

    VRRP interface tracking monitors a specific interface IP state within the router. Depending on the state

    of the tracked interface, the feature can alter the VRRP priority level of a virtual router for a VRRP group.

    An exception to the priority level change is that if the VRRP group is the IP address owner, its priority is

    fixed at 255 and cannot be reduced through the tracking process.

    VRRP route tracking monitors the reachability of an IP route. A tracked route is considered up when a

    routing table entry exists for the route and the route is accessible. To configure route tracking, make

    VRRP a best route client of RTO. When a tracked route is added or deleted, change the priority.

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    Posted July 17th, 2012 09:00

    We are using Dell PowerConnect 6248P switches at both locations.  The core switches host all of the interVLAN routing.  We use the default VLAN to route across the WAN, which is done with  and Cisco 28xx routers.