Solved: Cisco 1811, can I make turn the switch ports into routed-only ports?

thomasdzubin · ‎02-12-2009

I have a Cisco 1811 router (two routed-"WAN" ports FE0 & FE1 and eight switch "LAN" ports FE2-FE9)

Is there any way to change the eight switch ports into routed-only ports where I assign an IP to each interface and each interface is on a different VLAN? (so they don't see each other's layer-2 traffic)

Edison Ortiz · ‎02-12-2009

Those are Layer2 switchports but you can create SVIs (Switch Virtual Interfaces) for each independent switchport, for instance:

vlan 2

int f1/2

sw ac vl 2

interface vlan 2

ip add 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.0

vlan 3

int f1/3

sw ac vl 3

interface vlan 3

ip add 3.3.3.3 255.255.255.0

HTH,

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Edison.

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Edison Ortiz · ‎02-12-2009

Those are Layer2 switchports but you can create SVIs (Switch Virtual Interfaces) for each independent switchport, for instance:

vlan 2

int f1/2

sw ac vl 2

interface vlan 2

ip add 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.0

vlan 3

int f1/3

sw ac vl 3

interface vlan 3

ip add 3.3.3.3 255.255.255.0

HTH,

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Edison.

thomasdzubin · ‎02-12-2009

Thanks! A quick followup question... is there any way to have the vlan "up" even if the interfaces that make up the vlan are down? (eg: in your example, I want to be able to PING 2.2.2.2, even though nothing is plugged into int f1/2)

(I like to have my router PINGable even if the workstations plugged into all the ports are turned off)

thomasdzubin · ‎02-12-2009

Nevermind... I figured it out:

int vlan2

no autostate

Edison Ortiz · ‎02-12-2009

I'm afraid there isn't unless you allocate one of those switchports as a trunk connection to another switch and forward that Vlan in the trunk.

For instance;

interface fx/x

switchport mode trunk

The if you issue the show trunk or show interface trunk, you will see all Vlans in forwarding state by default.

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Edison.