[ale] VLANs and logging

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Thu Apr 18 09:46:26 EDT 2019


Only the router and the DHCP server need to be on trunk lines. 
(Consider having the router perform DHCP, too.)  All other devices would 
be on untagged ports for the VLAN you wish them to be a part of.

On 4/17/19 11:53 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> Not the router, the multihomed devices that are on trunk lines from the
> switch.
> 
> On 2019-04-17 14:59, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:
>> It's a pretty basic premise of routing that the router has to have an
>> address in the subnets it is going to route between, as it must offer a
>> gateway address *in the subnet* to the leaf nodes.
>>
>> On 4/17/19 2:50 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
>>> I was hoping to avoid having multiple IPs on them but looks like I can't
>>> since each VLAN virtual interface will have to have its own IP.
>>>
>>> On 2019-04-17 08:47, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:
>>>> A trunk port w/ tagged VLANs for your router and DHCP server is all you
>>>> need.  These devices are then virtually multihomed (in addition to your
>>>> router's uplink).


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