Hello all.
I have problem with VLAN connected to router over one trunked port on switch (hp v1910 originally 3com 2928-SFP).
HP notebook is working properly when connected to tagged port.
Dell notebook timeouts on some connections and is not able acces switch and router management console, but pings can do.
Macbook is not able do any connection from Mac OS/X or from Windows XP. (I found some discussions Mac OS/X upgrade can solve it.)
I hoped VLAN is not depends on clinets. I readed that switch add VLANID to packet, send it to router, and when resulted packed is received, switch remove VLANID from packed and send it to back to client, so client don’t know about VLAN nothing.
Probably I’m wrong, can I do any settings on switch for functional VLAN with all my clients? Or is any another switch (ie. Cisco/Linksys) able do it?
Thank you for help.
Clients are - usually - not aware of VLANs, and don’t have to be. Sounds like you have your switch set up wrong. Post your RouterOS VLAN configuration just to have it looked at, but it is probably not the router.
From my understanding, you wish to connect clients to a specific VLAN. If you’re not sure or wish not to configure VLANs on the clients PCs and devices you should use untagged VLANs on the ports that connect directly to your clients. I hope this helps
Thank you for reply. Untagged configuration is functional. But what I need is tagged configuration, becouse I have limited router ports now (RB1100 will be available too late, I’m still waiting on it), so I need combine more VLANs in switch and use one trunked connection for send it to the router.
I do some testing with device manager and network adapter setting and I found “Priority & VLAN” is enabled on HP notebook. When disabled, tagged connection is not fully functional. I found “802.1p QOS” is disabled in Dell notebook. I enabled it and I’m able connect to switch and to router management. So upgrade Mac OS probably make functional Macbook too.
So my VLAN is depends on clients and this is wrong for me, becouse I don’t know all clients what will use VLAN tagged connection. I think here is chance any other switch can do VLAN better, any experience? Or any another idea? Thank you.
client ports should be untagged, router port should be tagged in each VLAN
Just on a side note, OS X does VLANs out of the box, you just add VLAN subinterfaces in the interface list of the network section of the system properties. Not that clients should get untagged traffic, just saying.