Hi Rene
Thank you for the lessons. They are very helpful.
I have 7 VLANs (4-10), each with about 4 ports and VLAN1 as the default, and 4 ports assigned to VLAN1- they are not part of VLAN 4-10. All ports in the VLANs are Access and UP ports. I want to know how to configure the switch(es) so that
- I replicate the VLANs onto a second switch, which will provide scalability for my network as it grows. The second switch will be an active device on the network and will be used for expanding the network and the number of devices on each VLAN. So VLAN 4 on switch1 will be available as VLAN4 on switch2, with the same configurations. Devices added to either switch1 or switch2, on the configured VLANs should be able to communicate
- I can assign IP addresses to the VLANs (range of ports) and the appropriate DHCP addresses are distributed from my DHCP server. I am using the GUI and cannot see how to assign the IP addresses for each VLAN's gateway.
- all the computing equipment in VLAN 4-8 can access services(DHCP, DNS, file, mail, printing services) that are in VLAN 9 and 10. I have one routing device through which all the VLAN equipment will access internet services.