Hi all,
I have managed to get my 3 RB2011’s talking but I am pretty sure they are not configured correctly for the best performance. I have some basic questions that i think may clear up some of my confusion.
On the switch chip feature of using master ports. In my config I have port 2,3,4 setup to use port 5 as the master. I want all of these ports to be trunks. It was my understanding that all I had to do was setup port 5 as the trunk and the other ports would follow the port 5 settings. That does not seem to be working, did I misunderstand that? It works if I assign each vlan to each port.
I think where I am getting confused is around bridges. I created a bridge for each vlan but now I think that was not the right thing to do since a bridge is handled by the CPU. I do want to setup some VLANs on the second switch, is the only way to get them to that switch via a bridge? I assume so but want to make sure. If that is the case, do I only need bridges for the vlans that are going to be between the 2 switches? It is the part of the bridge that I think is confusing me.
If I am just passing a VLAN through the router and am not going to have an IP on the router for that VLAN, do I need to add in the switch CPU to the vlan? I am guessing not but want to confirm.
And last, I have my MGMT vlan as vlan 50. I can talk to the router just fine but from the router I cannot ping anything else on VLAN 50. It is like the packets from the cpu are not being put on vlan 50. I tried adding add-if-missing for vlan 50 onto the switch1 cpu but then I lost connection to the router, but when I got connected again I did see pings went through.
I am sure this is all simple stuff, I am just confused how this all fits together.
Thanks!
Mike