I think the answer to your first question is yes, but the 8 ports will just need to be assigned a VLAN that isn't on any of the other ports.  They should be a part of at least one VLAN that the rest of the ports on the stack are not using.  Question 2, you will want to use PVID, which is a default VLAN ID assigned to access ports.

-B

Thanks guys for the answer.

Josh, yes a different subnet sunc as 10.20.0.0/24. Clients would be 10.20.0.1, 10.10.20.2 etc etc

Looks like under Port Settings (GUI) I can't change the Port VLAN Mode to Access and specify another vlan id. Am i right? I can only do it when selecting "General".

Paras.

Hi Paras,

All ports are going to be part of a VLAN, if no VLAN is specified it is part of VLAN 1. When you say a different network address do you mean a different subnet? It sounds like you need those eight ports on their own VLAN, rather than the ports not being on any VLAN. To make the ports accessible from a client without needing to configure a VLAN on the NIC you would set the switch port to access mode and set the default VLAN on that port to the VLAN it needs to access.

Select the needed interfaces and use

Switchport mode access

Switchport access vlan [vlan number]

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In that case they should be a new VLAN for that subnet. What options are you seeing for the access mode in the GUI? there should be a way to change the VLAN it is on.

Hi Josh,

Do I need to Bind IP a subnet to a VLAN after creating a new vlan? This is something I was wondering how does one bind the vlan to some subnet.

From GUI, If I select Access, I can only change Port Priority. All other options are disabled.

Thanks!

Paras.

Try doing it from CLI, it should work there. You do not need to bind an ip to the VLAN, but you can. In CLI you would select that interface and use the ip address command.

The general port type allows you to have one untagged vlan and the rest tagged. There is not a way to have multiple untagged vlans on one port.

That's right.

So we use pvid for untagged vlan?

Josh,

It worked from CLI !.

One last question, can I make one single port as an untagged access port one vlan and same port for few other (lets say 3) vlans?

For example, Port g31: vlan 10 (untagged and as access port),  vlan 9 , vlan 101 , vlan 102

Thanks!

Paras.