Multiple vlans per port

[chowsy]

Hi,

I would like to know whether are there cisco switches that can configure multiple vlans per port? I don't mean trunking.

The reason of doing so is because I have 2 vlans with same range of ip addresses and I want some ports/servers to be accessed by the 2 vlans.

Thanks.

adrian chow

[sachin]

Normally a port can belong to single vlan.but if you want a server to be in multiple vlans then you have put NIC card which supports IEEE 802.1Q specification like 3Com Fast EtherLink PCI TX Server Adapter.

HTH

Sachin

[peterbe]

Some switched do support multi-vlan ports ie. 2900 & 3500XL. Below is extract from Cisco document and link...

Multi-VLAN

A multi-VLAN port can belong to up to 250 VLANs (some models only support 64 VLANs) and is manually assigned. You cannot configure a multi-VLAN port when a trunk is configured on the switch. VLAN traffic on the multi-VLAN port is not encapsulated.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/switches/ps605/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080112d2a.html#21531

Peter