Creating and Configuring VLANs - griffinsnest/tech-Jorunal-1 GitHub Wiki

How to create VLANs on a switch

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On any individual Switch to set up VLANs simply go to the Config tab on the switch window and go under the VLAN Database and add the VLANs the switch will support. In this labs case, the VLANs' numbers and names are given, so simply input those into the matching fields of this config section to initially set up the VLAN for devices connected to the switch. After this, we must configure which ports are in which VLAN. Once again begin in the switch's Config tab by changing the VLAN number for the Access Port configuration per interface. In the case of this lab, FastEthernet 0/1 is set to be VLAN 10 (ENG), FastEthernet 0/2 VLAN 20 (MKT), and FastEthernet 0/3 VLAN 30 (ACT). These are all set as access ports, meaning that these are for devices on the switch to connect to VLANs. Finally on the Switch's GigabitEthernet 0/1 port, you'll need to change its setting to Trunk. For VLANs a Trunk port has the purpose of carrying multiple VLANs and is used to connect the multiple switches in the lab. In simple terms, this port will allow for the VLANs to span across multiple switches. To do this on the newly minted Trunk port, instead of checking only one of the added VLANs on the drop-down menu like seen on previous Access ports, here you'll simply check all of the connecting VLANs. And then that's it for setting up switches to utilize VLANs, it's that simple. Really the only hang-up might be that if a switch has multiple switches connected to it, you'll need to set up however many Trunk ports for the number of other connected switches, in the case of this Lab floor 2's switch is connected to two other stitches so it requires two.