Question : Dell Powerconnect 2816 and Cisco 871w - VLAN

Hi all,

It's sad the Dell doesn't have much documentation on how to configure their Powerconnect Switches. Here's my issue: I have a Powerconeect 2816 with 3 Vlans (1, 20 and 40). All three Vlans are on the same subnet (192.168.0.1). I configured port 1 as the trunk port to my cisco router. I followed the instructions on how to configure a trunk port on the powerconnect (received instructions from a Dell technician -nice guy - emailed me instructions without Pro support plan) but i still can't get the trunk port to communicate with my cisco router. I have configured the port on the cisco as a trunk port. When port 1 on the powerconnect is on Vlan 1 (default vlan) I'm able to access vlan from the router BUT i can't access vlan 20 or 40. If I change port 1 on powerconnect to vlan 20 or 40, i can access the hosts on vlan 20 or 40 BUT i can't access the router. As strange as it sounds, I can't figure out how to resolve this. Does anybody has any suggestions?

Thanks,

Miceros

Answer : Dell Powerconnect 2816 and Cisco 871w - VLAN

hi!
dell's port g1 should be configured as following:

Port : g1
Port Mode: General
Gvrp Status: disabled
Ingress Filtering: true
Acceptable Frame Type: admitAll
Ingress UnTagged VLAN ( NATIVE ): 1

Port is member in:

Vlan               Name               Egress rule Port Membership Type
---- -------------------------------- ----------- --------------------
 1                  1                  Untagged          System
 20               VMWARE               Tagged           Static
 40            buffalo only             Tagged           Static


then you should have router which will route traffic between vlans.
what i want to know is what kind of IP addresses you have for each of vlans and which device is doing routing between them?