Hi everyone,
Having found out my Draytek router does not support VLAN-trunks, I decided to try Monowall after hearing a lot about it and not really knowing it was so powerful.
My hardware:- Cisco SLM 2008 smart switch
- Soekris 4801 (1 WAN port, 1 LAN port, 1 OPT port)
Explanation of my issue:The management interface (VLAN 1) of my Cisco SLM2008 smart switch has become unreachable. Port 1 on the switch has been set to accept
tagged frames only, which would imply that it is a trunk port. I believe I have got the theory down so far?
So I deciced to put the OPT 1 port of my Soekris in a VLAN with ID 1. Unfortunately, it still cannot ping the Cisco. I can't really figure out whether the Soerkis is in fact sending tagged frames. So I decided to put the OPT 1 port in VLAN 2 also. Theory says a normal access port can only belong to 1 VLAN so putting the OPT port in 2 VLAN's at the same time would again imply the port is a trunk.
Anyway, that didn't solve the issue. Can anyone help me figure this out please. I could crawl into the basement (again
) and reset the Cisco switch but that doesn't get me closer at making a working trunk.
Cheers,
Jeroen
Topic: Monowall newbie VLAN woes