Hi.
I have a CRS 317-1G-16S+ and I want to use por 1-8 as one switch and port 9-16 as another switch… I don’t want hosts conected to port 1-8 to have any communication with hosts connected to ports 9-16.
Which is the best way to do this? 1) Using port isolation or 2) Create two bridges interfaces, one for each group of ports ???
i think Bridge VLan Filtering
Definitely not #2 … only one bridge can be ofloaded to switch chip, the other one will consume CPU resources.
I agree with @chechito, VLAN filtering is the way to go. Make ports 1-8 access ports of one VLAN and ports 9-16 access ports of another VLAN. For simplicity sake don’t use VLAN ID 1 for either of them (VID=1 is completely valid selection, however it’s used as default and not shown in configuration expirts, hence it’s easy to overlook it somewhere and can make things work seemingly incorrectly).
thank you. I will try vlan filtering
set port 1 to 8 PVID 1
set port 9 to 16 PVID 2
go to bridge and select vlan filtering, and vlan 1 as default ( so you will access the SW only from the sub nets of ports 1 to 8 ).
Now, this is not an exact explication of how to use vlans, but in your setup it should work, if you want to know more, do a google search on vlans.
This will be HW Offloaded, so you will have 10 Gbps wire speed.
