I recently purchased a 24-port Gigabit Layer 2 Switch that supports VLAN tagging and trunking. Dell PowerConnect 5324, see here, has 24 Ethernet ports and is capable of tagging and untagging Frames at wire speed. It is a discontinued model, however doing some googling I found a updated firmware and IOS image!
Physical Topology
The topology is pretty typical of “routing-on-a-stick” for Multiple VLANs. I have a Linux server running Ubuntu 12.04 with a single NIC and the Dell PowerConnect switch.
Port configuration:
Network 1 = g1 – g16
Network 2 = g17 -g23
802.1q Information:
Switch Trunk Port = g24
Router Trunk Port = eth1
Logical Topology
I have a single LAN I want logically separated using a single switch. The VLAN IDs are 100 & 200. The VLAN subnets and ports will be as follows;
Subnets:
VLAN 100 = 192.168.1.1/24
VLAN 200 = 192.168.2.1/24
VLAN Access Ports:
VLAN 100 = g1 – g16
VLAN 200 = g17 -g23
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