12-20-2007 04:05 AM - edited 03-05-2019 08:06 PM
Hi,
I'm trying to build VLAN on my network using Catalyst 2940. My principal network is 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0
My cisco catalyst is 192.168.0.252
I build a VLAN 2 192.168.1.252 255.255.255.0
How may I do to allow a PC connected on a VLAN 2 port to get an IP address by DHCP situated on my principal network ?
12-20-2007 04:16 AM
Hi there,
You will need a Cisco router as well, in order to do the inter-VLAN routing.
You need to set up the Ethernet interface on the router with a sub-interface for each VLAN you have. You need to enable trunking on the switchport the router is connected to, trunking each VLAN to the router. You can then set an "ip dhcp helper x.x.x.x" address on each sub-interface.
This is sometimes known as "Router on a stick" - you can find some example configs by searching for this.
Hope this helps!
Kind regards
Graeme
12-20-2007 04:34 AM
The 2940 is a layer2 switch only , the only reason to have an address on this switch is to manage the switch itself . It has no routing functionality so you need to only define 1 SVI to manage the switch so if you have a "interface vlan 1 then that is all you need , get rid of any other ip addresses on the switch. If you need to have devices from both networks on this switch then you need to have either a router or a l2/3 switch and make the connecting link between the 2940 and the routing device a trunk link . If your dhcp server is not on the same subnet your vlan 2 addresses then on the routing device you will need to add "ip helper addresses pointing to the dhcp server address.
12-20-2007 09:22 AM
thank you for your reply.
I saw that there is a "dhcp relay" configuration section onto the catalyst 2940... what this function is supposed to do ?
12-20-2007 11:06 AM
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