HELP!!!!!!! Remote office VLAN connections 1

[networkgod99]

My boss is away, and I have been given the following project and am totally stuck

Main office - All corporate servers located here, some secure, some open.... I need to first seperate all of them into appropriate VLAN's (easy) connect the trucks from the core to the edges, then, connect the external offices to the appropriate VLAN's at head office (no clue)
also .... if some user ports need access to several VLAN's .. how on earth do I do that???? someone PLEASE SAVE ME before my boss gets back!!!!!!!!

 

[vipergg]

You need to get a router or a L2/L3 switch to able to route between the vlans . This way anyone on one vlan can talk to any other vlan or you can restrict access by applying aCL's on the router .

 

[lambent]

Depends on what resources currently you got...

This can be done by:

1) Using 1 physical port on a router and create multiple subinterfaces representing different VLANs and run encapsulation dot1q/isl with their corresponding IP addresses

2) Using multiple physical ports on a router and connect different VLANs to different ports

3) Using a layer-3 switch, enable IP routing and create multiple VLAN interfaces with their corresponding IP addresses

 

[networkgod99]

I have a core 4506 with 2 gig blades that are not heavily utilized except for servers, and the edge switches, including remote offices, are 2924xls .... someone please give me specifics .... I know I am appearing to be a little too retarded to do this, and perhaps I am .. but thats why I have come to you guys .... PLEASE HELP ME

 

[lambent]

Say you have 3 VLANs and you want to enable IP routing among them.

Create the 3 VLANs in the 4506, namely VLAN 10, 11, 12. Then go to Interface VLAN10, VLAN11 and VLAN12 and assign the proper IP address to the VLAN interfaces. These IP addresses will be acting as the "default gateway" for the corresponding VLAN/subnet.

Then assign VLAN 10, VLAN 11 and VLAN 12 to interface f0/1, f0/2 and f0/3 respectively (of cause you have to use your own interface numbers...). Then connect f0/1 to the edge switch #1 of VLAN 10, f0/2 to the edge switch #2 of VLAN 11 and f0/3 to the edge switch #3 of VLAN 12. And of cause you'll have to set the ports in the edge switches to the proper VLAN number.

For the command references, please refer to the following URLs:

Configuring Layer3 interfaces:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...figuration_guide_chapter09186a0080367171.html

Configuring Layer2 interfaces:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...figuration_guide_chapter09186a0080367163.html